'Get Import Lead Failures' and 'Get Import Lead Warnings' resources fail with HTTP 404

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to test the 'Get Import Lead Failures' and 'Get Import Lead Warnings' GET methods against the Marketo Sandbox environment. When I send requests to these two resources, I get an HTTP 404.

Below are the requests I'm sending and the responses I'm getting. Could you kindly let me know what's causing this issue and whether I'm doing anything wrong? I'm sending the requests based on the API documentation.

Get Import Lead Failures

Request Passed

GET https://743-YFC-765.mktorest.com/bulk/v1/leads/batch/2584/failures.json
[no cookies]
Request Headers:
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Bearer 5a666b45-0f38-4ce8-a9a4-d41a85753443:sn
Host: 743-YFC-765.mktorest.com
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/1.8.0_91)

Returned response

Thread Name: [Direct Invocation of Marketo API Backend] - Bulk Lead Database Uploads APIs 1-1
Sample Start: 2018-04-20 14:29:53 AEST
Load time: 65
Connect Time: 0
Latency: 65
Size in bytes: 121
Headers size in bytes: 121
Body size in bytes: 0
Sample Count: 1
Error Count: 1
Data type ("text"|"bin"|""): 
Response code: 404
Response message: Not Found
Response headers:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:29:53 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
HTTPSampleResult fields:
ContentType: 
DataEncoding: null

Get Import Lead Warnings

Request Passed

GET https://743-YFC-765.mktorest.com/bulk/v1/leads/batch/2584/warnings.json
[no cookies]
Request Headers:
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Bearer 5a666b45-0f38-4ce8-a9a4-d41a85753443:sn
Host: 743-YFC-765.mktorest.com
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/1.8.0_91)

Returned response

Thread Name: [Direct Invocation of Marketo API Backend] - Bulk Lead Database Uploads APIs 1-1
Sample Start: 2018-04-20 14:29:53 AEST
Load time: 29
Connect Time: 0
Latency: 29
Size in bytes: 121
Headers size in bytes: 121
Body size in bytes: 0
Sample Count: 1
Error Count: 1
Data type ("text"|"bin"|""): 
Response code: 404
Response message: Not Found
Response headers:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:29:53 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
HTTPSampleResult fields:
ContentType: 
DataEncoding: null

[SanfordWhiteman]

These endpoints are RESTful. If there are no errors or warnings, you'll get a 404 because the requested resource (a file with the offending rows) does not exist.

If there are errors, you'll get a CSV response.

You'll know whether to check for warnings/errors from the response to status.json, i.e.

"numOfLeadsProcessed": 1,
"numOfRowsFailed": 0,
"numOfRowsWithWarning": 1,
"message": "Import succeeded, 1 records imported (1 members), 1 warning."

Note the Bulk Import endpoint is generous with what it accepts without throwing exceptions (i.e. without generating an exception file). Don't expect that just because an import did not throw errors that all your data values entered the database. For example, a field that's blocked under Block Updates is not an exception. On the other hand, a malformed Email is a warning exception.

[Anonymous]

Hi Sanford,

Thanks a lot for the response. If I understood you correctly, since my insertion was successful and no errors were returned, these endpoints are returning me a HTTP 404 for the given batchId since no error files are present. And thank you for the additional details. I will work on this and get back to you if I have further questions.

Thank you,

Evanthika

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

Correct.

RESTful paths (Marketo doesn't always use them, but here they do) follow HTTP semantics. So an HTTP GET for a nonexistent resource path should return a 404. If it returned a 200 then that would misrepresent the fact that the resource does not exist.

Please mark my answer as Correct when you get a chance, thanks.