passbolt/passbolt_api · error · Cake\Http\Exception\BadRequestException

This is not a valid Ajax/Json request.

Error message

This is not a valid Ajax/Json request.

What it means

Guard in NotificationOrgSettingsGetController::get(): the email notification organization settings endpoint only serves JSON responses. It fires when the incoming request is not an Ajax/JSON request (e.g. a plain HTML GET, or missing the JSON Accept/Content-Type headers), rejecting it with HTTP 400 before any settings are read. The client must send the request with JSON headers as passbolt's API endpoints require.

Solutions

1. Send the request with Accept: application/json and the json flag
2. Use the API client configured for JSON requests

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at plugins/PassboltCe/EmailNotificationSettings/src/Controller/NotificationOrgSettings/NotificationOrgSettingsGetController.php:39 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of passbolt/passbolt_api@31c1bbc10f (2026-09-17). Data as JSON: /api/errors/abdac8d1a043c2b7. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at plugins/PassboltCe/EmailNotificationSettings/src/Controller/NotificationOrgSettings/NotificationOrgSettingsGetController.php:39

use Cake\Http\Exception\BadRequestException;
use Cake\Http\Exception\ForbiddenException;
use Cake\Utility\Hash;
use Passbolt\EmailNotificationSettings\Utility\EmailNotificationSettings;

class NotificationOrgSettingsGetController extends AppController
{
    /**
     * Handle Org Settings get request
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function get()
    {
        if ($this->User->role() !== Role::ADMIN) {
            throw new ForbiddenException(__('You are not allowed to access this location.'));
        }
        if (!$this->request->is('json')) {
            throw new BadRequestException(__('This is not a valid Ajax/Json request.'));
        }

        $configs = EmailNotificationSettings::get();

        $flatten = Hash::flatten($configs);

        $this->success(__('The operation was successful.'), $this->_formatForOutput($flatten));
    }

    /**
     * Format the . delimited keys to snake_case
     *
     * @param array<string, mixed>|null $data The data to Format
     * @return array<string, mixed> the formatted array
     */
    private function _formatForOutput(?array $data = [])
    {
        $output = [];

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