Eloqua Release 21C Customer Release Briefing and New Feature Summary Available

Lou Patrick

Visit the Oracle Eloqua 21C Release: Customer Release Information page for an on-demand briefing and a complete list of all of the features included in the 21C Release.

Here is an extract of all the Developer Updates:

APP DEVELOPER FRAMEWORK

• Notification Call Improvement: When there is no response to the Notification URL call from the App, Eloqua will now retry the Notification URL call over approximately an eight-hour period of time instead of failing after one attempt.
• Content Service Improvement: Eloqua will now set records to error as soon as errors occur, instead of waiting 24 hours.

APPLICATION API

Asynchronous Form Processing via API is now enabled for the Create form data a single form endpoints.

BULK API

• Import Improvement: When the External Id, e.g. ContactIDExt, is used as the identifier field, the Bulk API will extract and match on the indexed ID.
• Export Improvement: Adding an improved retry strategy to cover a wider variety of failures that can occur during Bulk API exports.
• Encoded Surrogate Pairs: The Bulk API will now accept encoded surrogate pairs, e.g. \uD83D\uDE03. UPDATE August 27, 2021: This feature will no longer be included in 21C.

OAUTH

More detailed 401 responses are now available when authenticating with OAuth 2.0:

• For the https://login.eloqua.com/auth/oauth2/token endpoint, for the status of 401 Unauthorized the response body will now include the following:
  • error: the name of the error type
  • error_code: the numeric value uniquely identifying the type of error
  • error_description: provides details on the error
• Errors have been divided into categories indicated by the 1000s digit of the error_code according to the following:
  • General Error Messages - 1000
  • Error Messages Related to Authentication - 2000
  • Error Messages Related to OAuth2 Authentication - 2500
  • Error Messages Related to Authorization - 3000