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As part of an integration project, I need a PHP website to be able to both read from and write to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016's Odata services.

I found that fetching a list of existing customers from PHP is as simple as this :

<?php
$ch = curl_init(); 
        
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://<Server>:<WebServicePort>/<ServerInstance>/OData/Company(\'<CompanyName>\')/customer'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'USERNAME:PASSWORD');   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Connection: Keep-Alive',    
        'Accept: application/json',          
        'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8',   
        "Accept: */*"                       
]);   

$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), TRUE);
echo json_encode($response, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

// Close handle
curl_close($ch);

I also found that fetching a single customer from PHP is as simple as this :

<?php
$ch = curl_init(); 
        
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://<Server>:<WebServicePort>/<ServerInstance>/OData/Company(\'<CompanyName>\')/customer(\'<Id>\')'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'USERNAME:PASSWORD');   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Connection: Keep-Alive',    
        'Accept: application/json',          
        'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8',   
        "Accept: */*"                       
]);   

$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), TRUE);
echo json_encode($response, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

// Close handle
curl_close($ch);

So far, so good. Now, my problem is that I'm struggling to figure out how to create any new customers.

I tried this :

<?php
$ch = curl_init(); 
        
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://<Server>:<WebServicePort>/<ServerInstance>/OData/Company(\'<Company>\')/customer'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, [
    'Name' => 'WebServiceTestCustomer',
    'Address' => 'TestCustomerStreet 55',
    'Credit_Limit_LCY' => 0
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'USERNAME:PASSWORD');   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Connection: Keep-Alive',    
        'Accept: application/json',          
        'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8',   
        "Accept: */*"                       
]);   

$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), TRUE);
echo json_encode($response, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

// Close handle
curl_close($ch);

That didn't work.

As I figured it might be lacking some fields, I also tried this :

$ch = curl_init(); 
        
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://<Server>:<WebServicePort>/<ServerInstance>/OData/Company(\'<Company>\')/customer'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, [
    'Name' => 'WebServiceTestCustomer',
    'Phone_No' => '016666666',
    'Post_Code' => '3000',
    'Country_Region_Code' => 'BE',
    'Currency_Code' => 'EUR',
    'Language_Code' => 'NL',
    'Customer_Posting_Group' => 'BINNENLAND',
    'Gen_Bus_Posting_Group' => 'BINNENLAND',
    'VAT_Bus_Posting_Group' => 'BINNENLAND',
    'Payment_Terms_Code' => '14 DAGEN',
    'Reminder_Terms_Code' => 'NEDERLANDS'
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'USERNAME:PASSWORD');   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
        'Connection: Keep-Alive',    
        'Accept: application/json',          
        'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8',   
        "Accept: */*"                       
]);   

$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), TRUE);
echo json_encode($response, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

// Close handle
curl_close($ch);

That didn't work either.

Regardless of whatever I set as POST fields, I keep getting this totally unhelpful error message :

{
    "odata.error": {
        "code": "",
        "message": {
            "lang": "en-US",
            "value": "An error occurred while processing this request."
        }
    }
}

Unfortunately, the documentation isn't very helpful either.

Does anyone here have a clue how to fix this?

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