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Firebase Dynamic Link Rest API - 400 Bad Request

I am transitioning an existing service from using google url shortener api to try and use Firebase Dynamic Links. I have linked a project from the Google Cloud Platform, and setup a "dummy" android app so that I can have the app domain for the dynamic links. I am trying to use the REST API to shorten urls for very long urls that can't be handled by a third party. I have tried sending using:
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("https://firebasedynamiclinks.googleapis.com/v1/shortLinks?key=****");
FirebaseDynamicLinkInfo dynamicLinkRequest = new FirebaseDynamicLinkInfo();
dynamicLinkRequest.setDynamicLinkDomain("zw5yb.app.goo.gl");
dynamicLinkRequest.setLink(assetUrl);
httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(mapper.writeValueAsString(dynamicLinkRequest)));
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
responseBody = httpClient.execute(httpPost, responseHandler);
I am getting a 400 Bad Request when I post the request to the API (on the httpCLient.execute line. I have double checked my api-key. I have also tried using just the longDynamicLink parameter, and it gets the 400 Bad Request Response.
Any ideas of where I could be going wrong?
Thanks,
Ben

I contacted Google Support on this one, and I wasn't UrlEncoding my querystring parameters on the deep link. After encoding the link, the request was successful. I went back to using passing json that just had a longDynamicLink property (as opposed to the dynamicLinkInfo object in my original post). Here is what it looks like:
String myEscapedUrl = "https://zw5yb.app.goo.gl/?link=" + URLEncoder.encode(assetUrl, "UTF-8");
FirebaseDynamicLinkRequest dynamicLinkRequest = new FirebaseDynamicLinkRequest(myEscapedUrl);
httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(mapper.writeValueAsString(dynamicLinkRequest)));
// inform the server about the type of the content
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
responseBody = httpClient.execute(httpPost, responseHandler);

Correct way to call telegram api methods

I'm working on Telegram api in my java application. I need to do authentication and authorization with my telegram account and get message list of my specific group. For this purpose, first I got api_id, api_hash and MTProto servers from telegram site. Second, I tried to authorize my account with auth.sendCode method in this way:
...
String url = "https://149.154.167.40:443/auth.sendCode";
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.addHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpPost.addHeader("charset", "UTF-8");
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("phone_number", myPhoneNumber));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("sms_type", "5"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("api_id", api_id));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("api_hash", api_hash));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("lang_code", "en"));
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, "UTF-8"));
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
...
But this returns me javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake exception. I tested url with http instead of https and this returned 404 Not Found html content. What is the correct way for calling telegram api method in java?
Update:
I tried using java socket for sending TCP post request, but this returns me 404 not found.

Since it's mproto protocol, you must obey their specification - https://core.telegram.org/mtproto
I suggest you to use this project, since it has working examples - https://github.com/badoualy/kotlogram

Getting 400 - Bad Request Java Client

I'm trying to do a request using a small Java program but I'm getting a 400 - Bad Request as response:
URI uri = new URIBuilder().setScheme("https")
.setHost("somehost.com")
.setPath("/API/v1/export").build();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(uri);
post.setHeader("X-API-ID", "myId");
post.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("format", "csv"));
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("userId", "userId"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
JsonNode responseJson = sendResponseEngineRequest(post);
This responseJson returns the following value:
{"meta":{"httpStatus":"400 - Bad
Request","error":{"errorMessage":"Invalid Content-Type.
expected=application/json
found=application/x-www-form-urlencoded","errorCode":"RP_0.1"}}}
Thanks in advance.

The answer is literally in the error you're getting.
You specify you will only accept post.setHeader("Accept", "application/json"); and the error is telling you that what you're requesting is found=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
If you have control over the endpoint you're requesting data, change it to application/json. If you don't change post.setHeader("Accept", "application/json"); to post.setHeader("Accept", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

Since this is a POST request, you may need to provide both Accept and Content-Type headers.
Accept: What you are expecting to receive.
Content-Type: What you are sending to server
post.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
post.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");

In my program i am also got this error and found that the link not accepting repeated values.
so please check your link It may not accept any repeated parameters which is already available in that link.

Box API Updating Email Alias Issue

I am trying to update email alias for different users. I am able to authenticate, get the code and then get the access token. I am sending the access token in the HTTP POST request as a Header. I am using Java & Apache HTTPClient to make the RESTful call. Here is the code snippet (Only relevant code shown).
if (httpClient != null) {
String apiURL = getApiURL();
apiURL = MessageFormat.format(apiURL, "firstname.lastname#company.com");
// apiURL = https://api.box.com/2.0/users/firstname.lastname#company.com/email_aliases
// firstname.lastname#company.com does exist in the Box Account
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(apiURL);
post.addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+accessToken);
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email", "updateemail#company.com"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, Charset.defaultCharset()));
HttpEntity entity = post.getEntity();
ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String responseFromBox = httpClient.execute(post, responseHandler);
writeResponse(response, responseFromBox);
if (responseFromBox != null) {
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("apiURL-->"+apiURL);
logger.debug(responseFromBox);
}
}
}
The problem is that the response I get is some HTML code that says "The page you were viewing has expired. Please go back and try your request again." I was expecting some JSON string.
What I am doing incorrect? In the Post request instead of sending the email address I used the user id. But I get the same error.
In fact when I try to fetch the email alias of a user using the HTTP GET request I get an error "Not Found". The user does exist. I have an admin control. I can see them.
Thanks
Raj

Try a get on /users to get the array of all your users in the enterprise first. Is that working for you? If not, can you do a get on /users/me? If you can't get the former, then your API key may not have the "manage an enterprise" grant setup for it. You have to set that up in the app management, where you setup your OAuth2 callback URL.
Not sure why you are getting HTML back. That usually only happens on badly formed requests that our servers can't even parse, like you are hitting the wrong URL.
Just a reminder, OAuth2 URL is different from the API URL. 1st is https://www.box.com/api/oauth2/.... 2nd is https://api.box.com/2.0/...
As for setting the Email alias, that's entirely possible, once you know the ID of the user you are trying to set the alias for. Documentation is here

I was using the NameValuePair instead of the JSON string that was being expected. So I removed the following
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email", "updateemail#company.com"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, Charset.defaultCharset()));
and added
String json = "{\"email\":\"firstname.lastname#company.com\"}";
StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(json, Charset.defaultCharset());
post.setEntity(entity);
and then things started to work!

Sending post request from a servlet

I have been trying to send a POST request from a servlet and the code that I wrote is this:
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url.build());
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValue));
post.setHeader("content-type", "application/json");
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse res = client.execute(post);
The URL is "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token" and I send some parameters with this request.
However, when I run this I get AccessControlException.
The HttpPost method that I use here comes from org.apache.http i.e., commons HttpClient API. I have tried a lot but it doesn't seem to work.
So the question is "Is it possible to send a cross domain request using HttpClient?"