Can't Register a user with drupal Services (Error Response 500 service unavailable)

Question

Using,
Drupal 7.x,
Services 3.x.

Everything is working,
Login
Getting all nodes
logout
Getting Tokens etc

Only while registering a new user i get reponse 500 service unavailable !

Trying it like this,

POST method to

xyz.com/rest/user/register

where rest is the endpoint !

Posting data for registration like this,

{
"name":"user343",
"pass":"kes35@r4",
"mail":"[email protected]",
"status":"1"
}

Answer 1

Your error is caused by a faulty validation call within the drupal services module. It is a tough one to track down. Try a quick patch in the services/resources/user_resource.inc file to fix.

diff --git a/resources/user_resource.inc b/resources/user_resource.inc
index 04801fb..7693f2d 100644
--- a/resources/user_resource.inc
+++ b/resources/user_resource.inc
@@ -335,14 +335,6 @@ function _user_resource_create($account) {
   // Execute the register form.
   $form_state['programmed_bypass_access_check'] = FALSE;

-  // Ensure this is validated, as drupal_form_submit will not call validation.
-  user_register_validate('user_register_form', $form_state);
-  $errors = form_get_errors();
-  // If there are errors, then short circuit and return early.
-  if ($errors) {
-   return services_error(implode(' ', $errors), 406, array('form_errors' => $errors));
-  }
-
   drupal_form_submit('user_register_form', $form_state);
   // find and store the new user into the form_state
   if(isset($form_state['values']['uid'])) {

If you are uncomfortable with a standard patch, you can just comment out those lines to quickly apply a manual fix. Information sourced from this page. Keep enjoying Drupal!