Plesk API fails to create FTP user: Element ‘webspace-id’: ‘0’ is not a valid value of the atomic type ‘id_type’

Symptoms

Creating an additional FTP user over the Plesk API fails:

# curl -k -u admin:'passXXXX' -X POST -d @plesk-ftp.json "http://<hostname>:8443/api/v2/ftpusers"
{
"code": 1014,
"message": "Parser error: Request is invalid. Error in line 1: Element 'webspace-id': '0' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'id_type'."

Cause

This is caused a by a product issue: EXTREST-158. It will be fixed in future updates.

Resolution

There's no ETA for the fix; follow this article to be notified of any updates. For now, the following workaround is available.

Note: Replace the required values (i.e. hostname, X-API-Key, FTP username, domain name, and password) in the commands below.

1. Create a secret key (X-API-Key):

   # curl -iku admin:password -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{}' https://hostname:8443/api/v2/auth/keys

2. Run this API-CLI call:

   # curl -k -X POST "https://hostname:8443/api/v2/cli/ftpsubaccount/call"
   -H "X-API-Key: 67X1fX25-24dX-5eX8-bXe1-d9566X4Xf4X9"
   -H 'accept: application/json'
   -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
   -d '{ "params": ["--create", "jdoe", "-domain", "example.com", "-home", "/httpdocs", "-passwd", "password"]}'