Forecast API FAQ & Error Handling
Updated 6 months ago
by
Leigh Hutchens
- Q: What does “403” error.forecast.forbidden mean?
- Q: What does “404” error.forecast.variable.notFound mean?
- Q: When I use the POST command for /raw-data or /forecast-data with the same timestamp, why does it add the data and double the amount I was expecting?
- Q: When I POST data and get a "202" response, I still don’t see the values in the GUI. Why do they show up after a while?
Q: What does “403” error.forecast.forbidden mean?
A: This is caused by one of the following reasons:
- The credentials you are using are not valid for the environment, customer, or groups you are sending your request.
- The credentials you are using are only set to "read" and you are trying to do a POST call
- Check the token response and make sure it is set to "read write"
- Check the token response and make sure it is set to "read write"
- externalUnitId or externalSectionId is not configured in correlation to your API request. Read more about the configuration here.
- Example of correct set externalUnitId
- Example of correct set externalUnitId
- Forecast module is not activated for the customer where the unit you are interacting with belongs.
Q: What does “404” error.forecast.variable.notFound mean?
A: This is caused when the externalForecastVariableId is not found on the customer where the request is made.
Q: When I use the POST command for /raw-data or /forecast-data with the same timestamp, why does it add the data and double the amount I was expecting?
A: If you are sending data again with the same timestamp and want that to overwrite, add the flag appendData=false to the URL of the request.
Q: When I POST data and get a "202" response, I still don’t see the values in the GUI. Why do they show up after a while?
A: Depending on the volume of data that is sent in, and on what granularity we handle the receiving and storing/writing, the data asynchronous. So, it will take a while for large quantities of data to load and be visible in the GUI.
