# Could not update user! because of a NullPointerException **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting advice\ **Created:** [January 5, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/could-not-update-user-because-of-a-nullpointerexception/19412 "2023-01-05T21:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnny-human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@johnny-human](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/johnny-human)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/could-not-update-user-because-of-a-nullpointerexception/19412/1 "2023-01-05T21:00:39Z")
Hello, I’m trying to update a user in a specific realm as admin-cli. I have set up Postman and I’m able to return a list of all users in the realm, and also access a specific user. But when trying to update that specific user, I get this error: ```auto [org.keycloak.services.resources.admin.UserResource] (executor-thread-9) Could not update user!: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.keycloak.representations.idm.UserRepresentation.isEnabled()" because "rep" is null at org.keycloak.services.resources.admin.UserResource.updateUser(UserResource.java:169) ``` This is the request: ```auto PUT http://localhost:8080/admin/realms/bikefolder/users/5c2b646a-2964-438e-8b03-265dc64f113a { "attributes": { "test": "test" } } ``` Does anyone have a clue what could be the problem? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![xgp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/forum.keycloak.org/xgp/32/2589_2.png) [@xgp](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/xgp)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/could-not-update-user-because-of-a-nullpointerexception/19412/2 "2023-01-06T08:13:49Z")
You have to include the full representation. These update endpoints don’t “overlay” changes. The recommended practice is to do a `GET` for the user you want to update, change the values in the representation you get, and then `PUT` that representation back. ---
**Author:** ![johnny-human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@johnny-human](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/johnny-human)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/could-not-update-user-because-of-a-nullpointerexception/19412/3 "2023-01-06T09:05:37Z")
Ok, thanks. But still not working. I tried to send this, the request body sent when updating a user in the browser: ```auto { "username":"john", "email":"john@test.com", "firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe", "enabled":true, "emailVerified":true, "requiredActions":[] } ``` Sending back the representation I receive when running a GET in Postman, will not work either. I’m using `openjdk 19.0.1` and `keycloak-20.0.2` and running it as a standalone production server with this config: ```auto kc.cache = ispn kc.config.built = true kc.db = dev-file kc.features = account-api, admin-api kc.health-enabled = false kc.hostname-strict = false kc.hostname-strict-https = false kc.http-enabled = true kc.http-relative-path = / kc.log-console-output = default ``` ---
**Author:** ![xgp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/forum.keycloak.org/xgp/32/2589_2.png) [@xgp](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/xgp)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/could-not-update-user-because-of-a-nullpointerexception/19412/4 "2023-01-06T09:27:07Z")
Can you send the full request you are using? A curl or something like that, so we can see all of the headers you are sending. Also, one useful “hack” is to use the Keycloak Admin UI to do a sample user update with the browser network inspector open, copy the request, and make sure you are doing the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![johnny-human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@johnny-human](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/johnny-human)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/could-not-update-user-because-of-a-nullpointerexception/19412/5 "2023-01-06T09:39:45Z")
```auto [Request] PUT /admin/realms/bikefolder/users/0f6aa9db-943d-4b88-af94-57e3e7d612ca HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/json Authorization: Bearer ... User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.29.2 Accept: */* Postman-Token: f3cd6488-9ea5-438e-8266-4a762b218680 Host: localhost:8080 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Connection: keep-alive { "username":"john", "email":"test@test.com", "firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe", "enabled":true, "emailVerified":true, "requiredActions":[] } [Response] HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Referrer-Policy: no-referrer X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Content-Type: application/json content-length: 41 {"errorMessage":"Could not update user!"} ``` This is the headers from the browser network inspector, when updating a user in Admin UI: ```auto [Request] PUT /admin/realms/bikefolder/users/0f6aa9db-943d-4b88-af94-57e3e7d612ca Accept: application/json, text/plain, */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,no;q=0.8 Authorization: bearer ... Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 153 Content-Type: application/json Host: localhost:8080 Origin: http://localhost:8080 sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="108", "Not?A_Brand";v="8" sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0 sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows" Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 { "username":"john", "email":"test@test.com", "firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe", "enabled":true, "emailVerified":true, "requiredActions":[] } [Response] Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:8080 Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Location Referrer-Policy: no-referrer Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Status Code: 204 No Content ```