I'm tiring to create a new user in Moodle using auth_email_signup_user but I'm not sure how to format the request

Question

I have a few required custom profile fields that are date pickers and checkboxes. and I'm not sure what type to put them as in the request the only example the documentation has is one with type string. I keep getting the response

{ "exception": "invalid_parameter_exception", "errorcode": "invalidparameter", "message": "Invalid parameter value detected", "debuginfo": "" }

this is my request below:

https://example.com/webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken=faketoken&wsfunction=auth_email_signup_user&moodlewsrestformat=json&username=fromapp&password=FakePass123&firstname=From&lastname=App&[email protected]&customprofilefields[0][type]=text&customprofilefields[0][name]=profile_field_Church&customprofilefields[0][value]=JesusYouth&customprofilefields[1][type]=date&customprofilefields[1][name]=profile_field_DOB&customprofilefields[1][value]=2014-06-19&customprofilefields[2][type]=checkbox&customprofilefields[2][name]=profile_field_Saved&customprofilefields[2][value]=1&customprofilefields[3][type]=text&customprofilefields[3][name]=profile_field_Sex&customprofilefields[3][value]=Male&customprofilefields[4][type]=text&customprofilefields[4][name]=profile_field_phone_no&customprofilefields[4][value]=1-868-479-8661&customprofilefields[5][type]=text&customprofilefields[5][name]=profile_field_Marital&customprofilefields[5][value]=Single

I'm not sure what I need to do to make this request work and the documentation doesn't give much insight or I just haven't found it

Answer 1

So after playing around with the request on postman what I discovered is that the only type you need to use is string. I also discovered that for date fields the value must be unixtime and for checkboxes the value must be either 0 or 1.

https://example.com/webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken=faketoken&wsfunction=auth_email_signup_user&moodlewsrestformat=json&username=formapp7&password=fakepassword&firstname=From7&lastname=App7&[email protected]&customprofilefields[0][type]=string&customprofilefields[0][name]=profile_field_church&customprofilefields[0][value]=JesusYouth&customprofilefields[1][type]=string&customprofilefields[1][name]=profile_field_saved&customprofilefields[1][value]=Yes&customprofilefields[2][type]=string&customprofilefields[2][name]=profile_field_man&customprofilefields[2][value]=0&customprofilefields[3][type]=string&customprofilefields[3][name]=profile_field_born&customprofilefields[3][value]=1630813061&customprofilefields[4][type]=string&customprofilefields[4][name]=profile_field_single&customprofilefields[4][value]=Single&customprofilefields[5][type]=string&customprofilefields[5][name]=profile_field_aboutyou&customprofilefields[5][value]=Well i am new

This is an example of how a request would look where profile_field_man is a checkbox and profile_field_born is a date field. something also worth noting is that 'born' is the short name of the profile field mentioned before and the words 'profile_field_' must be prepended to it. I hope this helps anyone trying to use auth_email_signup_user