Attendance POST gives JSON error...HELP!

Julian Daniel

Having a really frustrating time trying to add an attendance entry to a test student. I'm using CURL, with the following request (edited only for security/privacy):

https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/attendance

-X POST --header "Content-type: application/json" --header "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: xxxxxxxxx" --header "Authorization: Bearer xxxxxxxxxxxx" --data-raw "{\\"begin_date\\":\\"2022-04-05T00:00:00-08:00\\",\\"end_date\\":\\"2022-04-05T00:00:00-08:00\\",\\"start_time\\":\\"00:00:00\\",\\"end_time\\":\\"23:59:00\\",\\"excuse_comment\\":\\"Testing\\",\\"excuse_type_id\\":3992,\\"student_user_id\\":444444}"

This generates the following unhelpful error message:

? * Line 1, Column 1
Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
* Line 1, Column 1
A valid JSON document must be either an array or an object value.

It doesn't matter how I massage the CURL Options - it keeps complaining that the JSON isn't properly formatted.

Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Julian Daniel

And there's an error in the docs for the create attendance endpoint:

The sample data says:

{
"student_user_id": 10,
"begin_date": "2021-09-30T00:00:00Z",
"end_date": "2021-09-30T00:00:00Z",
"start_time": "2022-05-11",
"end_time": "2022-05-11",
"excuse_type_id": 153,
"excuse_comment": "College Trip"
}

however "2022-05-11" is not a time.