https://demo-api.ig.com/gateway/deal/markets -> error.better-search.invalid-call

[KML]

Dear all.

I'm playing around with the API using Java. I've been able to log in (version 1), listing accounts (https://demo-api.ig.com/gateway/deal/accounts), listed top level nodes (marketnavigation) and subscribed to some information using the LightStreamer client.

However, I'm now trying the /markets endpoint, but with no success so far. For instance, I get status 401, with error code "error.better-search.invalid-call". I'm not able to find this error message in the documentation. The same endpoint work when I try the API companion.

Any help highly appreciated!

[Will7]

I'm experiencing the same issue. I can call top-level nodes but when I try to call '/markets' I get the same '{"errorCode":"error.better-search.invalid-call"}' response. 

 

https://demo-api.ig.com/gateway/deal/markets?searchTerm=FTSE is working in the API companion but when I use exactly the same string on my node server it returns the error. 

 

const headers = {

'CST': cst,

'X-IG-API-KEY': key,

'IG-ACCOUNT-ID': accountId,

}

const markets = () => {

console.log(headers)

request({

url: `https://demo-api.ig.com/gateway/deal/markets?searchTerm=FTSE`,

method: "GET",

headers

}, function (error, response, body) {

console.log(body)

});

}

markets()

 

returns '{"errorCode":"error.better-search.invalid-call"}'

[KML]

Any progress? I just noted that when I omit the search term (ie calls https://demo-api.ig.com/gateway/deal/markets, I get a different error message, "Service bean method[getMultipleMarketDetailsV1] failure: null". And then I also get the exact same error message testing the API companion. Also the http status changed from 401 to 500.

[m123m123]

Hi @KML and @Will7,
Do you mean the https://github.com/IG-Group/ig-webapi-java-sample?
I cannot connect...
But this is already a step forward, after I failed to get the Schopenhauer Nodes code to work.

Which JDK do you use, Oracle11, too?
On Windows or Linux?
Do you use the "default profile", too?
I only changed  file src/main/resources/environment.properties
ig.api.domain.URL = https://api.ig.com/gateway/deal
I can connect to the production site in the  companion.

 

~/jdk-11.0.21/bin/java -jar target/ig-webapi-java-sample-console-2.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar usr pwd apikey

 Starting Application v2.2.0-SNAPSHOT on PC with PID 59372 (started by markus in .../ig-webapi-java-sample/ig-webapi-java-sample-console)
No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.springframework.cglib.core.ReflectUtils$1 (jar:file:.../ig-webapi-java-sample-console/target/ig-webapi-java-sample-console-2.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/BOOT-INF/lib/spring-core-4.3.2.RELEASE.jar!/) to method java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String,byte[],int,int,java.security.ProtectionDomain)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.springframework.cglib.core.ReflectUtils$1
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Connecting as usr
Invalid cookie header: "Set-Cookie:  Invalid 'expires' attribute: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:16:26 GMT
...4 more invalid cookies...
Unexpected error:
org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException: 403 Forbidden

 

Edited January 11 by m123m123
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[KML]

Thanks for your input. I started to code from scratch, using JDK 11 on Linux. That is, I did not start with the code from Githup.

Not sure what you mean by default profile, but I had to create a specific username/password for the application in addition to the one I use when I log in myself. As the user interface in Norwegian, I'm not sure on the exact wording in the menues, but the link is https://www.ig.com/no/myig/settings/api-keys. Not that there are different entries for live and demo accounts.

The application uses the same username/password as I do in the API companion.

[m123m123]

KML, thank you.

I started to use https://github.com/ig-python/trading-ig instead of Java, because I do not want to code from scratch, I find it well documented and structured,  and, last but not least, it works. Maybe you can use it as inspiration, it is a very shallow layer.

Indeed I had to create different username/password/api-key for live and demo.