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Asked: 2026-05-20T17:42:26+00:00

I’m writing one of my first apps for consuming a web service in Objective

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I’m writing one of my first apps for consuming a web service in Objective C, it’s a Lighthouse API client. I’m able to execute all the GETs and XML parsing correctly and quickly, but I’m having extreme trouble trying to create a new ticket via POST (http://lighthouseapp.com/api).

I’m using ASIHTTPRequest.
I tried including the parameters on the URL (i.e. POST /projects/#{project_id}/tickets.xml?title=boo).

I’ve tried putting the ticket XML in the request body.

<ticket><title>boo</title></ticket>

Nothing is working. (server always sends a response back saying it needs a title) I’m very new to web services – am I missing something obvious?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I had a quick look at the Lighthouse API and here’s how you go about creating a new ticket.

    1. Request URL is http://{yourCustomURL}.lighthouseapp.com/projects/{ProjectID}/tickets.xml where {ProjectID} is a 5 digit number – in my case 72945.

    2. Method is POST

    3. Content type should be set to application/xml

    4. Body should be in the format below. All fields are optional so I only included the title

    <ticket> <assigned-user-id type="integer"></assigned-user-id> <body></body> <milestone-id type="integer"></milestone-id> <state></state> <title>Testing new ticket creation</title></ticket>

    (sorry about the formatting of the code above, SO doesn’t seem to like XML formatted code somehow?

    This worked for me with a new ticket created under projectID 72945 – response received was 201 Created

    If you want to make sure your POST request is working before diving into ASIHTTPRequest, download a Firefox add-on called POSTER from here. This will allow you to send an authenticated post request with all the fields above. Once you get that working, it should be a piece of cake to get ASIHTTPRequest to do the same.

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