How to send INT variable in HTTP request body

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Hi everyone! I’m working with HTTP Request i need to do POST into my API.
I need to send some information in INT format. My API requires it.
Syntax in this case is:

““start_date””: “”“+startDate+”“”

HTTP Request, want to automaticly convert it to string.
Can i send it as INT32?

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@Kamil_Cyrek

Body part will accept string only but not Integer. Then why you want to convert it to Interger ?

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You say your API requires the date information as an INT (Integer?).

How does that work? Usually dates would be required as DateTimes or Strings in a specific format.

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It’s a timestamp

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My API expected INT type in this in this field :confused:
If i send it, in string. API return: ERR 400, bad request.

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As I said, DateTimes or timestamps are not usually given as Integers. I guess your API is parsing it somehow? What is the date format required?

I gave timestamps to an API before, but as a string and had it formatted like this:

""date_from"": ""2019-11-01T22:00:00.000Z""

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Unfortunately :confused:
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Well, you have to find out in which format your API wants this information. It could be yyyyMMdd like this:

""date_from"": 20191101

It could include the time somehow also, maybe yyyyMMddhhmmss

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Ok, thanks. I have one more simple question with this problem.
I can send it as

““start_date””: 1584352800000

. And it’s works.
But i can’t do

““start_date””: “”“+startDate+”“”

but in startDate is 1584352800000 - the same value.

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It’s weird because your API accepts only Integer, but RequestBodies usually get sent as string.

Given you startDate variable is of variable type integer, here is what you got to do:

" ""start_date"":" + startDate.ToString

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Thanks, but this syntax doesn’t work.
End of statement expected.

When i tryed:

““start_date””: “”“+startDate+”“”

I can’t convert from double to string.

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Since you are sending the RequestBody as String anyways, may I suggest you keep the startDate as String or DateTime? Why are you keeping it as double? Here is an example for DateTime:

SampleDate (DateTime) = Today
" ""start_date"":" + sampleDate.ToString(yyyyMMdd)

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Usually when date type needs to go as number you use like this:

Dim dt = Date.Parse("22.03.2020 07:07:32") 
Dim ticks As Long = dt.Ticks

The think is that integer would be too small to represent a date…

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