Mobile Configuration in 2.34.3

Gerald_Thomas · 7 April 2021 02:50

In 2.31.9, when configuring the SMS gateway the following parameters were available: Message Parameter=content and Recipient Parameter=to_number. In 2.34.3 to the latest version of DHIS2 doesn’t have those parameters. Please what is the way of configuring SMS gateway on 2.34.3? Because it is saying sent but I am not receiving the SMS on my phone. I am getting this error on the SMS gateway log:

{
“message”: {
“status”: “error”,
“error”: {
“name”: “SyntaxError”,
“message”: “Unexpected end of JSON input”,
“code”: 422
}
},
“level”: “error”,
“label”: “sms-gateway-prod”,
“timestamp”: “2021-04-04T22:08:40.072Z”
}

mujtabaomar · 7 April 2021 09:31

the latest version of the SMS gateway is buggy, it doesn’t work as it was working in 2.33 and expected.

please configured it as it’s in the above image.

Isidoreadje · 7 April 2021 11:21

Hi @mujtabaomar ,

Thanks for your quick response but can you be more explicit? Because the content of the

Url and the Configuration template

are hidden by the red ligne in your image

mujtabaomar · 7 April 2021 11:55

HI @Isidoreadje,

URL template includes the gateway but the rest of the parameters should be included in the configuration template, in the previous version there was the message parameter here you have to encode that like (message=${text}) and receiver=${recipients}. here is the link for the API SMS configuration.

Isidoreadje · 7 April 2021 12:25

Okay Thanks @mujtabaomar

Gerald_Thomas · 7 April 2021 21:05

Mujtaba,
Please all secret information were not shared and I had already tried it in so many ways nothing is working for me:

URL Template: https://a8765b3c33e5/messages/send
configuration Template: content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}&provider=rapidpro&secret=${secret}
contentType: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
sendUrlParameter: (checked)
secret=xxxxxxx

And I am getting this error on the SMS gateway logs:

"message": {
    "status": "error",
    "error": {
        "name": "SyntaxError",
        "message": "Unexpected token c in JSON at position 0",
        "code": 422
    }
},
"level": "error",
"label": "sms-gateway-prod",
"timestamp": "2021-04-07T20:53:23.467Z"

mujtabaomar · 8 April 2021 03:58

Hi @Gerald_Thomas,

embed the parameters in Configuration template like provider you did.
configuration Template: content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}&provider=rapidpro&secret=secret

don’t include any key-value pair as a parameter embed them in the query string.

Gerald_Thomas · 8 April 2021 04:41

Hi Majtaba,
I already did as you suggested:
configuration Template: content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}&provider=rapidpro&secret=secret but the SMS is still FAILED. On the SMS gateway I

am receiving this error message:

{
** “message”: {**
** “status”: “error”,**
** “error”: {**
** “name”: “SyntaxError”,**
** “message”: “Unexpected token c in JSON at position 0”,**
** “code”: 422**
** }**
** },**
** “level”: “error”,**
** “label”: “sms-gateway-prod”,**
** “timestamp”: “2021-04-08T04:38:35.986Z”**
}

mujtabaomar · 8 April 2021 05:24

Did you put whatever is expected in the provider=providerExpectedName and secret=whateverIsTheSecret. are you able to check what hits their server like what parameters are missing.

Gerald_Thomas · 8 April 2021 05:33

Dear Mujtaba,
I change the secret to my secret. I can’t see any parameter on the SMS server; it only send out an information about json which was attached on the previous message and DHIS2 under view send message it FAILED

Gerald_Thomas · 9 April 2021 07:55

Finally, find the solution for 2.34.3
Gateway Name: ANY_NAME
URL Template: https://SMS_GATEWAY_LINK?content={text}&to_number={recipients}&provider=provider_name&secret=XXXXXX
configurationTemplate: This should be blank
contentType: text/plain

useGet: (checked)
sendUrlParameters: (checked)

On 2.34.4
Gateway Name: ANY_NAME
URL Template: https://SMS_GATEWAY_LINK
configurationTemplate: content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}&provider=provider_name&secret=XXXXXX
contentType: text/plain

useGet: (checked)
sendUrlParameters: (checked)

chase.freeman · 14 September 2021 16:26

So in our new versions, are we supposed to pass our API Keys, Passwords, Secrets, etc directly into the query string of the configurationTemplate instead of using the parameters and “sendURLParameters” checkbox?

I could not get the parameters to pass into the query string.

Micheal_Berhanu · 17 February 2022 09:15

Hello,

I’m facing problems with passing recipients and message to the variables. The SMS gets sent when I hardcode the values, like this:

Tried doing:
&to=${recipients}&txt=${text},
&to={recipients}&txt={text},
content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}

But none seem to work. any help?

Gassim · 17 February 2022 09:38

Hi @Micheal_Berhanu,
Welcome to the community!

What is the version of your dhis2 instance?

Why don’t you try to use APPLICATION_JSON instead of FORM_URL_ENCODED? You’ll change somethings but I don’t think you’ll face difficulty with variables once you use the parameters in that format. Have you seen this sample JSON payload? SMS - DHIS2 Documentation

Thanks!

Micheal_Berhanu · 17 February 2022 10:19

Thanks for the quick response @Gassim,

I’m on version 2.33.0

Yes, I saw the payload, my service provider expects a GET request with this format
https://portal.websprix.com/sendsms.php?id=myid&pass=*****&to=09122807836&txt=hrt

I tried this but still doesn’t work:

Gassim · 17 February 2022 10:20

Yes, sorry if you are required to use only that format then APPLICATION_JSON will 100% not work. Thanks!

Micheal_Berhanu · 17 February 2022 10:24

so, back to FORM_URL_ENCODED, but what am I doing wrong with the variable ? anything you see wrong?
On the UI, the message and recipient fields are blank:

Is there something I should write there?

Gerald_Thomas · 17 February 2022 11:18

From 2.33 to 2.35 this how we configured it:

“name”: “Websprix”
“URL Template”: https://portal.websprix.com/messages/send
“Configuration template”: content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}&secret=xxxxxx&provider=depends_on_your_provider
“Content type”: Plain text

check “Use GET”
check “Send url paramenters”

Micheal_Berhanu · 22 February 2022 05:29

Hey @Gerald_Thomas,

My provider has the following attributes only:

Id
pass
to
text

You suggested to use these: content=${text}&to_number=${recipients}&secret=xxxxxx&provider=depends_on_your_provider

Am I supposed to change the values according to my context. i.e
txt=${text}&to=${recipients}&pass=xxxxxx&id=****

Or write them exactly as you did? I sort of did both actually but doesn’t seem to work. Don’t know what to do.