Internal Error when creating Association between Contact and Deal with API

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Hi,
My Hubspot Database is feeded with external Contacts and Deals.

What is left are the correct Associations between Contacts and Deals.

for that I have createt a script with the following logic:
1. checks if there is already an exicting Association between Contact x and Deal y
2. if no create Association between x and y

I use curl and write in php

it is easy to find the code in the Documentation in Endpoints:

But when executing, Hubspot returns with an internal Error:

array(3) {
 ["status"]=>
 string(5) "error"
 ["message"]=>
 string(14) "internal error"
 ["correlationId"]=>
 string(36) "c65b12f0-05b6-492a-980b-3c4ece2f8d9d"
}

This is the Code im Using:

$assocArray has correct Information about 1 existing Contact and 1 existing Deal

The Access App Token is changed to xxx

var_dump(searchAssociation($assocArray['id_hubspot'], $assocArray['id_hubspot_deal']));
if (!searchAssociation($assocArray['id_hubspot'], $assocArray['id_hubspot_deal']))
{
createAssociation($assocArray['id_hubspot'], $assocArray['id_hubspot_deal']);
}

function createAssociation($fromID, $toID)
{
 $url ='https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v4/objects/contacts/'.$fromID. '/associations/deals/'.$toID;
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('authorization: Bearer xxx'));
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 $result = curl_exec($ch);
 $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
 curl_close($ch);
 $resultarray = json_decode($result, true);
 var_dump($resultarray);
}

Maybe somebody can help me wtih this Error?

What does this Error stand for?

Thank you^^

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Hi, @FabianG0 :waving_hand: Thanks for reaching out! Hey, @skimura, do you have any insights or thoughts on troubleshooting for @FabianG0?

Best,

Jaycee

3

@FabianG0

Hi.

In my case, same error has happen.（use [HubSpot Developer Docs] test tool)

so, ‘v4’ might has bug.

How about use API ‘v3’?

$associationType = 'contact_to_deal';
// almost '{fromObject}_to_{toObject}'

$url ='https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/'.$fromID. '/associations/deals/'.$toID . '/' . $associationType;
// '/crm/v3/objects/{fromObject}/{fromObjectId}/associations/{toObjectType}/{toObjectId}/{associationType}'

Thanks.

4

@FabianG0

Hi

I think i found a solution.

This api has to set ‘associateType’ in body param.

$url ='https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v4/objects/contacts/'.$fromID.'/associations/deals/'.$toID;

$params = [
 [
 "associationCategory" => "HUBSPOT_DEFINED",
// https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/crm-associations/crm-associations-overview
// Contact to deal => 4
 "associationTypeId" => 4,
 ]
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('authorization: Bearer xxx'));
// add
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFILEDS, http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
...

Thanks.

5

Oh, I forgot to answer…
For me the final step needed for the api call to work, was to add
‘content-type: application/json’
to the header of the curl.

Happy New Year and thank you for helping!