Jamf Pro Classes API incomplete ??

[elliots]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone else out there has run into this issue. We are trying to automate the management of "classes" in jamf pro. We can create a class via the API, but we cannot add a user group to the teacher group or student group of a class (or even a user account to the class) via the API. The API seems to be incomplete and only supports adding shared iPad devices to a class (according to the documentation).

It is strange, as the functionality is there in the GUI.

if anyone else has had any success with this i'd love to know.

Thanks!

Elliot 

[wkelly1]

Hey Elliot,

I have had success adding a teacher group ID as <class><teacher_group_ids>$exampleID</teacher_group_ids></class>. To modify a student group, it is similar - you should just need to swap teacher_group_ids for student_group_ids: <class><student_group_ids>$exampleID</student_group_ids><class>.

-William

[elliots]

Hi William,

 i'm not having much luck. The API call appears to work and doesn't throw any errors but when you look in the WebUI nothing has changed.

Here's my code. (i'm using powershell)

xml = "<class><student_group_ids>443</student_group_ids></class>"

$headers=@{}
$headers.Add("Accept", "application/json")
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/xml")
$headers.Add("Authorization", $tokenAuth)

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://$JamfTennantId/JSSResource/classes/id/$classID" -Method PUT -Headers $headers -Body $xml

The Terminal Response for an Invoke-RestMethod is: 

xml                            class
---                            -----
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" class

The Terminal Response for an Invoke-WebRequest is: 

StatusCode        : 201
StatusDescription : Created
Content           : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><class><id>441</id></class>
RawContent        : HTTP/1.1 201 Created
                    Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 10:13:39 GMT
                    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
                    Connection: keep-alive
                    Set-Cookie: AWSALB=oJNqvjCX5r0o38lkvMLHbQYby52G6BBj9JU+Fyvq2FA/v0hPkOG253BATYMEs+7zYPeIPgaBCt…
Headers           : {[Date, System.String[]], [Transfer-Encoding, System.String[]], [Connection, System.String[]], [Set-Cookie, System.String[]]…}
Images            : {}
InputFields       : {}
Links             : {}
RawContentLength  : 65
RelationLink      : {}

Would you be willing to share your working code?

Thanks,

Elliot

[wkelly1 · Accepted solution]

Hey Elliot,

Reading your comment made me check my comment and code again. It looks like I mistyped in my XML example and missed the <id> tag - '<class><student_group_ids><id>443</id></student_group_ids></class>'. I see you are also missing that in your example, which is likely the reason you're having trouble.

When I remove the <id> tag and only have the group ID itself (like both of our initial XML examples), I get a 201 response just like you see, and I also see no changes in the class - which makes sense since the tagging isn't formatted correctly.

-William

[elliots]

Hi William,

Thanks for that, the missing id tag did the trick. Thankyou so much. 

[elliots]

Hi William,

Just in case it matters, I thought i'd just clarify that we're using jamf cloud which is running the latest version 10.37.2.

Thanks,

Elliot