Improve REST webservice call syntax

Some calls to REST webservices can be improved.

For the moment, I noticed:

• the dateOfBirth syntax expected in modification is different from the syntax when reading the attribute
• the userPassword attribute can be read but not modified

For user password:

curl -H 'Session-Token: koo5cmma2kt1915k9qthjm6ef2' -X PUT -d '"test"' 'https://fd.pfptnbdev.io/rest.php/v1/objects/user/uid=coudot,ou=users,dc=kroqi,dc=fr/user/userPassword'
[{"message":"Le champ obligatoire 'Mot de passe' n'est pas rempli\u202f!","line":44,"file":"\/usr\/share\/fusiondirectory\/include\/webservice\/class_fdRPCService.inc"

Even a user creation fails:

cat fd-rest-new-account.json
{	"attrs": {		"user": {			"givenName": "Baptiste",			"sn": "TEST",			"userPassword": "test"		},		"mailAccount": {			"mail": "baptiste.gaillet@test.fr"		},		"personalInfo": {			"personalTitle": "Monsieur",			"fdBadge": "16"		}	},	"template": "ou=users,dc=kroqi,dc=fr"}

curl -X POST -d @fd-rest-new-account.json -H "Session-Token: koo5cmma2kt1915k9qthjm6ef2" https://fd.pfptnbdev.io/rest.php/v1/objects/user
[{"message":"Le champ obligatoire 'Mot de passe' n'est pas rempli\u202f!","line":44,"file":"\/usr\/share\/fusiondirectory\/include\/webservice\/class_fdRPCService.inc"

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assigned to @bmortier

For userPassword there is already #5979 (closed)

Thanks a lot, I did not see the issue. Using the array as userPassword value is a acceptable workaround for the moment.

the dateOfBirth syntax expected in modification is different from the syntax when reading the attribute

@coudot This does not seem true, if I call PUT on /objects/user/<userdn>/personalInfo/dateOfBirth with input '2018-07-05', and then I call GET on the same path, I do get the same format. Can you provide an example of what format was returned to you by the API that was unexpected?

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assigned to @MCMic and unassigned @bmortier

changed due date to December 03, 2019

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@MCMic Indeed, with GET / PUT it seems to work. I don't remember how I had the issue, so we can close this one.

I expect it was in the result of a search, as explained in #6014 (comment 73647) the search works on LDAP attributes and returns LDAP values, so for dateOfBirth you’d get LDAP generalized time format. I think this needs to be better documented.

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