405 Method not allowed when working in Rally WSAPI

Products

• Rally SaaS
• Rally On-Premise

Issue/Introduction

When performing create or update operations  in the Rally web services API (WSAPI), the following error is seen:

405 Method not allowed

 

Cause

This is caused by using a GET method for performing a create or update operation in WS API.

Resolution

Use the data object model to determine the appropriate method for the desired operation. 

For create operations, this will normally be a PUT or POST method.

For update operations use the POST method.

For delete operations the method will be DELETE.