Help deleting data input via REST API Please

[sloaniebaloney]

I am successfully utilizing the Splunk API through .Net and using GET, POST, and DELETE for many actions and all are working.

Working until I got to delete data inputs.

When I copy the exact url from a debugging session of my .Net code and paste it into cUrl, it works great. I am also url encoding the path.

My .Net code generates the following endpoint for deleting a data input via the rest API

https://localhost:8089/services/data/inputs/mon itor/c%3a%5cprogram+files%5cterso+solutions%5csplunk%5cindex_65b34d3a-463e-4950-8723-409193ee22d6%5cdi

The directory exists, however when this goes through .Net I get a 404.

When I take the text and pass it in through cUrl:

C:>curl -k -u admin:Password01 -X DELETE https://localhost:8089/services/data/inputs/mon itor/c%3a%5cprogram+files%5cterso+solutions%5csplunk%5cindex_65b34d3a-463e-4950-8723-409193ee22d6%5cdi

the data input deletes perfectly.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

[ywu_splunk]

This seems to be the same problem we encountered when developing Splunk C# SDK. It is due to URL munging inside .NET. To solve it, you may add genericUriParserOptions="DontUnescapePathDotsAndSlashes" to app.config, or use reflection to change .NET behavior.

Below is from code of Splunk C# SDK.

    /// <summary>
    /// Constructs a fully qualified URL for this service using a given
    /// path.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="path">The path.</param>
    /// <returns>The fully qualified URL.</returns>
    public Uri GetUrl(string path) 
    {
        // Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/781205/getting-a-url-with-an-url-encoded-slash
        // WebRequest can munge an encoded URL, and we don't want it to. 
        // This technique forces WebRequest to leave the URL alone. There is
        // no simple mechanism to ask .Net to do this, once there is, this 
        // code can be changed. This code also may break in the future, as 
        // it reaches into the class's non-public fields and whacks them 
        // with a hammer. 
        //
        // An alternative is to use 
        // genericUriParserOptions="DontUnescapePathDotsAndSlashes"
        // in app.config. However, that is a global setting, which is owned
        // by the application using the Splunk SDK. There's no way to 
        // configure the setting just of the Splunk SDK assembly.
        Uri uri = new Uri(this.Prefix + path);
        string paq = uri.PathAndQuery; // need to access PathAndQuery
        FieldInfo flagsFieldInfo =
            typeof(Uri).GetField(
                "m_Flags", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        ulong flags = (ulong)flagsFieldInfo.GetValue(uri);
        // Flags.PathNotCanonical|Flags.QueryNotCanonical = 0x30
        flags &= ~((ulong)0x30);
        flagsFieldInfo.SetValue(uri, flags);
        return uri;
    }