How to send body using POST method of HTTP Request activity

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Hi all,

I’m a newbie to UI Path. I want to send JSON body using POST method of Request activity.

Not sure how body parameter would accept as I’m getting error every time.

Also, if anyone can give me a suggestion of the best way to send the body because JSON Body will have dynamic data everytime,

{
“autoReponse”: false,
“body”: “I am testing something”,
“subject”: “swagger test”,
“channel”: “Chat”,
“queue”: “Test”,
“submitter”: “xx”
}

All the keys above would have dynamic data. The dynamic data is being fetched from database and is saved to datatable in start of each process.

If I can get an example, that’d be great.
Thanks

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Hi @malhotraneha162000

See these

Thanks,
Prankur

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ohh cool. That was quick.

Thanks much @PrankurJoshi :slight_smile:

I have another problem too that I stated in my question :

If anyone can give me a suggestion of the best way to send the body because JSON Body will have dynamic data everytime,

{
“autoReponse”: false,
“body”: “I am testing something”,
“subject”: “swagger test”,
“channel”: “Chat”,
“queue”: “Test”,
“submitter”: “xx”
}

All the keys above would have dynamic data. The dynamic data is being fetched from database and is saved to datatable in start of each process.

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See if this helps

Tahnks,
Prankur

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Thanks @PrankurJoshi,

I will have a look and will get back if I get struck.

Thanks

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Hi @PrankurJoshi,

A very quick question, I’m struck again :frowning:

So basically, I am using a variable through ‘Assign’ activity to set the JSON body for POST request:

“{ ““body””: ““Test””,”“subject”“:”" +subject+ “”, ““topicId””:“” +topicID+ “”, ““submitter””: “”+ submitter+ “”}"

Here, How do I append dynamic values for string variables - ‘subject’, ‘submitter’ and integer value - ‘topicId’
Do you may have any idea ?

@All Please suggest me how should I set dynamic Integer value to the JSON Body, if anyone has face similar issue, good to share the workaround :slight_smile:

Thanks

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hello i need to send a body to, but the type of my body request is x-www-form-urlencoded in other case a need to send a form-data body

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Hi Friends,

@PrankurJoshi, @ClaytonM @andrzej.kniola @Susana

I my workflow I am trying to post a request using Json body.
But, when I am trying to create a variable for Json body. I am getting Compiler error. Please find the screenshot below.

My Json Body Request is: {“userInfo”:{“firstName”:“John”,“lastName”:“Smith”,“address1”:“123 App Avenue”,“address2”:“Unit 123",“country”:“US”,“city”:“Denver”,“state”:“CO”,“zipCode”:“12345”,“phoneNumber”:“1231231234”,“email”:"beer@snipp.com”},“isQa”:true,“externalUniqueId”:“ID241”,“promotionIdentifier”:“100000”,“amount”:“5”,“deliveryConfiguration”:{“deliveryOptions”:{“campName":“”,“from”:"noreply@rewards.com”,“to”:“”,“senderFirstName”:“App”,“senderLastName”:“Reward”,“subject”:“Your reward”,“message”:“Congratulations”,“bccAddress”:“”,“ccAddress”:“”},“deliveryMethod”:“email”,“disableDefaultDeliveryMethod”:false,“sendReward”:true}}

Using double quote i tried to store the body into a variable.

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Please suggest, how can I store Json body into a variable.

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It looks like you want to store the request into a string. So what you will need to do is embed all the inner quotes (otherwise, each new quotation either opens or closes a string). So to do this, you can sometimes just simply replace the inner quotations with a single quote. If that doesn’t work (as I am not sure), you will need to use 2 quotes for each inner quotation
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Regards.

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If I want to send the Json request body directly into HTTP Body then. Do I need to replay all the single quote to double quotes?

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Yeah, I think so. If you hover over “Body”, it will show what type it should be, like <String>. I don’t have much experience with HTTP Request activity though.

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I am getting 400 status code (Bad Request).

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My suggestion would be to output whatever you put in the Body to a Message Box or WriteLine or Text File, so you can verify the string is correct. I’m not sure on the Body format though, cause I don’t have much experience with it. Good luck.

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Thanks for the support @ClaytonM. I hope, some of our friends might help me.

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Hi @ClaytonM Thanks for the support. It worked :slight_smile:

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Hi @Bhaskar_Mukka,

I tried with escaping the double quotes too. But after hitting the request, I get the error as “error:request is not valid json”.
Any insights into this?
@ClaytonM @aksh1yadav

Thanks!

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Hi @Akanksha_Varshney,

I have gone through you post

Can you please share the original request body. So that I can try from my end and let you know what is the issue.

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Hi @Bhaskar_Mukka,
Thanks for checking.
Following is the original Request Body, that is working fine in Postman.
{
“default_phone_number”:null,
“password”: “qwer1234”,
“email":"av@avtest.com”,
“first_name”:“AV”,
“is_admin”: true,
“last_name”:“Admin”,
“permissions”:{
“edit_apps”:true,
“edit_commcare_users”:true,
“edit_data”:true,
“edit_web_users”:true,
“view_report_list”:[
],
“view_reports”:true
},
“phone_numbers”:[
],
“role”:“Admin”,
“username":"av@avtest.com”
}

Request Body as string:
“{‘default_phone_number’:null,’password’: ‘qwer1234’,’email’:’av@avtest.com’,’first_name’:’Joe’,’is_admin’: True,’last_name’:’Admin’,’permissions’:{‘edit_apps’:True,’edit_commcare_users’:True,’edit_data’:True,’edit_web_users’:True,’view_report_list’:,’view_reports’:True},’phone_numbers’:,’role’:’Admin’,’username’:’av@avtest.com’}”

Thanks!

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Hi @Akanksha_Varshney

Can you please try the attached request body and let me know is it working or not.

RequestBody.json (413 Bytes)

Note: Please open the json file in notepad and try.

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Hey @Bhaskar_Mukka,

Was able to resolve the issue bu reading the JSON from a text file, without making it a string value.
Thanks @aksh1yadav for all the help!

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