POST JSON with extra (") at start and end

[HugoSousa]

So, I'm trying to test a POST request like this:

frisby.create('POST login details')
  .post(TEST + '/login',
  {
    username: "aaa",
    password: "9834876dcfb05cb167a5c24953eba58c4ac89b1adf57f28f2f9d09af107ee8f0"
  },
  { json: true },
  { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }})
  .inspectJSON()
.toss();

But, instead of a response 200, I'm getting a 401, because JSON isn't parsed correctly. I tried on Postman and it behaves correctly, returning 200, and after printing the body on the server it is like this (just an example, not the full body):

{ "username": "aaa" }

But with frisby it is:

"{ \"username\": \"aaa\" }"

I think the quotation marks at the start and the end of the body are the problem, and server can't parse the JSON correctly. Am I doing something wrong?

[AnirudhaAgashe]

I am facing the same problem. Did you find any solution ?
#171

[HugoSousa]

The trick on issue #167 fixed it for me. I've seen that reverting 'request' dependency back to 2.49 instead of 2.51 also fixes it, but I didn't try that.

[danlesage]

I have encountered the same problem. Reverting request.js back to 2.49 works for me.

[AnirudhaAgashe]

I didn't revert back to 2.51. I just changed
outgoing.body = JSON.stringify(data);
to
outgoing.body = data;
on line 389 of frisby.js
Now its working. Still not sure whether its right way to go.

[vlucas]

Update to Frisby v0.8.5 - this is resolved.

[vimukthi101]

getting the same issue with "version": "2.0.16" when sending the post request. Request is assigned to a variable and the variable is set in the frisby post command.

get the request :

var contents = fs.readFileSync(conf.tempFile, 'utf8').split('\n');
for(var i=0; i < contents.length - 1; i++){
var records = contents[i].split('|');
run_test(records[0],records[1],records.slice(2),i+1);
}

send the request :

var response = frisby
.post(conf.url,requestToFire)
.catch(err => {
logger.error(err);
})
.expect('status', 200)
.expect('header', 'Content-Type', 'application/json')
.done();

sending request taken from pcap :

"{"applicationId":"APP_000409","password":"eca5f1be454dc6744524b89010b40b5b","message":"hello world","destinationAddresses":["tel:AZ1101HXstW4OYuw4QQfODWKWPzL7dqtj49mywemJ6F5Mw+Np3WrFV6euLMjSgGx4hsQX6LQ0irL74IR673S0cNWWJA=="],"deliveryStatusRequest":"0"}"

[H1Gdev]

@vimukthi101

I think requestToFire is string.

How about this ?

.post(conf.url,JSON.parse(requestToFire))

[vimukthi101]

yes I got the issue resolved by using the above (Y)