REST API HOW TO PASS PARAMETER AS BODY

[JINESH GANDHI]

Hello,

Following is my visual foxpro code and i want to pass parameters as body how to do?

loHttp = CreateObject('Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0')

loRequest = loHTTP.open('POST',"

https://clientbasic.mastersindia.co/oauth/access_token")

loHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/json")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("username","testeway@mastersindia.co")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("password","!@#Demo!@#123")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("client_id","fIXefFyxGNfDWOcCWnj")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("client_secret","QFd6dZvCGqckabKxTapfZgJc")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("grant_type","password")

loHttp.Send( )

Above code not working in visual foxpro
and create error in response
{"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"Invalid grant_type parameter or parameter missing"}

But when I am using POSTMAN and put all parameter in BODY section these api is working.
I dont know how to pass parameter as body
kindly guide me

 

[Chris Miller]

The send method has body as its parameter. So prepare the body into a variable lcBody, for example, and pass it in at the line

loHttp.send(lcBody)

Chriss

 

[Rajesh Karunakaran]

Hi Jinesh,

The API documentation will specify parameters that are expected/accepted by the Header and parameters that are expected/accepted in the Body of the request. Please verify the documentation. Anyway, when you say that if you pass parameters in body using Postman and the API works, those are expected to be passed in the Body.

For example, if the 'grant_type' is a Body parameter, your input json for Body would be as below and you can have a variable to store like this:

lcJsonBody = '{"grant_type":"password"}'
..and then..
loHttp.send(lcJsonBody)

Suppose you have 2 more parameters to be passed in the Body json, it would be something like this:

lcJsonBody = '{"grant_type":"password", "Element1":"ValueForElement1", "Element2":"ValueForElement2"}'
loHttp.send(lcJsonBody)

The documentation will tell the correct way of passing the parameters. Different APIs will have their own policy in implementing/accepting user values into the API.

A suggestion: I am not sure the values you have provided here are real ones or just some random samples. Anyway, it's always better not to mention your actually Access keys, usernames, passwords etc in public forums not only here but any forum.

Rajesh