HTTP POST/PUT params

[ami7ava]

Is there any way parameters can be passed in the request body rather than the url for POST/PUT methods? Currently all params are sent via the url, even for POST/PUT.

[mansilladev]

In your use case, is your param list that you're POSTing in the request body live inside of a container? (e.g. JSON, JSON-RPC, etc.)

[mansilladev]

Damn that "Comment & Close" button. :)

[ami7ava]

The API (is a rails app) I was trying to use requires the following json as the request body -

{
   "post":{
      "title":"foo",
      "body":"bar"
   }
}

I tried to setup the parameters as -

   "parameters":[
      {
         "Name":"post[title]",
         "Required":"Y",
         "Default":"",
         "Type":"string",
         "Description":"Title"
      },
      {
         "Name":"post[body]",
         "Required":"Y",
         "Default":"",
         "Type":"string",
         "Description":"Body"
      }
   ]

and this is what I have noticed in the debug output -

{ httpMethod: 'POST',
  oauth: '',
  methodUri: '/posts.json',
  params: { post: { 'title]': 'foo', 'body]': 'bar' } },
  apiKey: '',
  apiSecret: 'undefined',
  apiName: 'SomeAPI' }
Unsecured Call
{ headers: { 'Content-Length': 0 },
  protocol: 'http',
  host: 'example.com',
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/posts.json?post=' }

1. It tries to send the params in the url
2. The format of the param names are not correct. Both title and body ends with a closing square bracket.

[kmayoral]

I get a similar issue when I try to access calls using the API tester for POST functions. PHP (well at least my version of 5.3) doesn't populate the global $_POST array with the parameters passed in the URL even though the HTTP method is POST. I have to resort to using $_GET or $_REQUEST arrays to make it work with the API tester. Perhaps if params were sent in the request body as abasak requests, this issue would be fixed as well.

[adrianmott]

I'd love to see this as well. I'm trying to setup a PUT method with our API and we require the updated fields to be in a JSON object in the request body (not as parameters in the URL).

Any update on this?

[ezarko]

I ran into the same issue, plus some others involving port numbers, https and API keys ... all when not using OAuth. Fixed in ezarko@35b3994. Pull request sent.

[ppalavilli]

has this been committed into the master ? looks like not.

[Allblues]

Is there a resolution to this issue? Can someone provide an example of how to include a param list in JSON in the request body of a POST?

[martintajur]

I've just recently worked on this and thought about sharing the work I did.

I've created a pull request with a patch that would use the HTTP request body instead of GET parameters when the request method is either POST, PUT or DELETE.

The pull request is here: #33

[Allblues]

Thanks for the update Martin.

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I've just recently worked on this and thought about sharing the work I did.

I've created a pull request with a patch that would use the HTTP request
body instead of GET parameters when the request method is either POST, PUT
or DELETE.

The pull request is here: #33

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[ccervon]

I just started using iodocs and so far I'm loving it. The only issue I have is that I have a few POST methods that require body parameters AND they can be used with a few query parameters as well.
Is there a way to indicate which parameter goes in the body and which one goes in the query url?

[sqmk]

Interesting. I may take a look to see if a new option makes sense per parameter.

[ghost]

Can someone confirm if there is any way to put parameters in POST body.
@ccervon : Did you find any solution?

[aikalima]

This seems to be working now, tested PUTs only. Example config:

{
                 "MethodName":"Update user",
                 "Synopsis":"Updates user with data supplied in request body",
                 "HTTPMethod":"PUT",
                 "URI":"/users/",
                 "RequiresOAuth":"N",
                 "parameters":[
                     {
                         "Name":"_id",
                         "Required":"Y",
                         "Default":"",
                         "Type":"string",
                         "Description":"user id"
                     },
                     {
                         "Name":"email",
                         "Required":"N",
                         "Default":"",
                         "Type":"string",
                         "Description":"email address"
                     }
                 ]
             }

Sends request BODY as:
{"_id":"51256ef66b1acdb6e5000002","email":"ww@ff.com"}

[ccervon]

Adding parameters in POST body works fine.

[Sidwick]

@ccervon, Can you proved the Json of a post using body you are confirming?

{
    "MethodName": "addfacebookconnection",
    "Synopsis": "Add a Facebook Connect to the Current Customer Session",
    "HTTPMethod": "POST",
    "URI": "/visitor/addfacebookconnection",
    "RequiresOAuth": "N",
    "parameters": [
        {
            "Name":"Payload",
             "Required":"Y",
             "Default":"",
             "Type":"string",
             "Description":"user id"
        }
    ]
}               

Does not work

[vky]

You can check out the fork that I've been working on with @dgc-wh, https://github.com/vkorapaty/iodocs (check the 'example' branch, or can check out the live example here: http://iodocs.vky.me/whitehat). PUT and POST methods can have a request body in addition to query parameters.

I believe Issue #66 is also working on this.

[Sidwick]

@vkorapaty, @dgc-wh

beautiful work.

[palanik]

@vkorapaty, @dgc-wh
ditto.

[divyakumbukkal]

@vkorapaty
I tried pulling out the latest iodocs from https://github.com/mashery/iodocs but the POST with request body does not seem to be working. I pulled out the latest from your branch too but nothing is working. Could you help?

[alexadkins]

Closed by commit 8ff62fc