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Deleting/Updating a webhook subscription using v2 API

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I am using Business Central v2.0 API to create/delete/renew webhook subscriptions for a custom app in our organization. Although create works fine and I can see my subscriptions in GET subscriptions API response, DELETE and PATCH(renew subscriptions) fail with HTTP 404 error with /Bad Request - Error in query syntax/ as seen below:

I'm following this doc and setting the subscriptionId in DELETE API from the output of GET API response. Also I've copied the @odata.etag value from output of GET API response and used that in the value of `If-Match` header in DELETE and PATCH API requests.

I have used the value of the @odata.etag value as is, unescaped the quotes as documented in a similar post for v1 API and tried various other combinations as well but the error persists.

This is the output of my GET subscriptions response:

I send a DELETE on this URL /https:/api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/production/api/v2.0/subscriptions(d2fc1f47490b4124afaf53523931dcf9)/ with If-Match header value set to

Parts of the docs are inconsistent as here they ask to use the v2.0 API for PATCH/DELETE but here they suggest using v1.0 API even though both are v2 reference docs.

Has anyone been able to get this working? Appreciate any pointers on this!

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Nitesh

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The subscription PATCH request to renew needs to have single apostrophes in the URL, which is not consistent:

BAD = api/v2.0/subscriptions(d2fc1f47490b4124afaf53523931dcf9)

GOOD = api/v2.0/subscriptions('d2fc1f47490b4124afaf53523931dcf9')

The header needs a valid If-Match, which can either be the latest etag or simply *, so If-Match="*"

The payload must include the clientState (if you provided one when creating the subscription) and the resource, so for the generalLedgerEntries subscription:

{
"clientState": "theClientStateYouSet",
"resource": "api/v2.0/companies(company_id)/generalLedgerEntries"
}

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The HTTP 404 / Bad Request error when deleting/patching webhook subscriptions via BC v2.0 API, despite successful creation, often points to:

Incorrect @odata.etag format in If-Match header: Ensure it's exact, including quotes (e.g., "W/\"...").

subscriptionId formatting in URL: Verify no extra characters or incorrect encoding.

API Version Inconsistency/Bug: Consider trying the v1.0 webhook endpoint for DELETE/PATCH if v2.0 fails consistently, as there are known inconsistencies.

The "Error in query syntax" strongly suggests a formatting issue with the ID or ETag.

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