Lab 13 web-ui connection to the rest-backend service not working

Tomlinmi

@spgreenberg still on lab 13, I ran into another issue. I am not able to verify the web-ui connection to the rest-backend service. I created the rest-back-end service with the credentials of my roster app. However when I bind the web-ui to that service and launch the route to the web UI I get the follow error when I hit the view people button: Please connect your app to the rest data service
Any thoughts on what I am missing?

spgreenberg

Can you post the output of cf env web-ui? Also make sure you have restarted the web-ui after you bound the service instance.

Tomlinmi

This is the output, I'm not seeing what its missing:

System-Provided:
{
"VCAP_SERVICES": {
"user-provided": [
{
"binding_name": null,
"credentials": {
"URL": "https://roster-shy-badger.cfapps.io"
},
"instance_name": "rest-backend",
"label": "user-provided",
"name": "rest-backend",
"syslog_drain_url": "",
"tags": [],
"volume_mounts": []
}
]
}
}

{
"VCAP_APPLICATION": {
"application_id": "2bef69b6-bc63-41f4-870b-e7f50b171c1b",
"application_name": "web-ui",
"application_uris": [
"web-ui-spontaneous-emu.cfapps.io"
],
"application_version": "830b1c1d-020f-4571-94f2-969410cf712e",
"cf_api": "https://api.run.pivotal.io",
"limits": {
"disk": 1024,
"fds": 16384,
"mem": 128
},
"name": "web-ui",
"organization_id": "f2d1c7a9-6a58-4daa-9b30-cb8d3ad68691",
"organization_name": "mtomlinson-org",
"process_id": "2bef69b6-bc63-41f4-870b-e7f50b171c1b",
"process_type": "web",
"space_id": "83fd6ce4-c509-4769-b3f5-267bf78ea886",
"space_name": "development",
"uris": [
"web-ui-spontaneous-emu.cfapps.io"
],
"users": null,
"version": "830b1c1d-020f-4571-94f2-969410cf712e"
}
}

No user-defined env variables have been set

No running env variables have been set

No staging env variables have been set

spgreenberg

the parameter of the user provided service is case sensitive. the name needs to be url and you should also drop the https:// as the value should just be the route of the rest data service. Make those updates, restart the web-ui and it should work.

Tomlinmi

@spgreenberg , that was the issue. Thanks for your help.

spgreenberg

Excellent! Happy to help.