What is the trick with REST to send a JSON String?

BLOMASKY

I am sure it must be me, but I am calling a node.js app running on my server and I need to pass a parameter. Since the server is running RESTIFY (obviously a REST server), if I pass a parameter with a get it should have a "/" not a ? so I would want it to look like 'APIcall/1234'. If I set the param to 1234 and I use a get, Aware sends APIcall?1234

So, plan B, I will use POST and send the data as a JSON string. I added a header "contentType : application/json", I change my parameter to "{orderNumber : 1234}" but it does not seem to make it to Node.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Bruce

BTW, I don't know if there is any interest, but I am doing this because of a need to automatically save the output of a JasperReport to PDF and then email it to the recipient. I will be happy to share this logic with anyone else who has a similar need.

Bruce

weblike

I really appreciate your effort Bruce.

BenHayat

BLOMASKY wrote
So, plan B, I will use POST and send the data as a JSON string. I added a header "contentType : application/json", I change my parameter to "{orderNumber : 1234}" but it does not seem to make it to Node.

Bruce

Bruce, I suggest that you first use Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/) to communicate with the Node server to see if the problem is on the server side or on the client side (Aware being the client).
If you get successfully make that POST from Postman to Node and you get a 200 result back, then you will need to focus on the Aware side. This way you can isolate which side has the problem.

Hope this helps!

BLOMASKY

Thanks Ben and George.

Btw, George, I have it working really slick with GETS (so passing params with the URL), I would be happy to show you sometime.

OK, not really good, I get an aware server error and the returned value does not update the BO, but otherwise.....

Bruce

UnionSystems

Hi Bruce,

I have also failed to get the AwareIM to POST JSON. I’m doing the same thing. Constructing the JSON in the nominated Parameter BO attribute but it does not seeem to make it into the body of the POST. I’ve even watched the packets with SharkWire and the body of the POST is empty.

UnionSystems

Hi Bruce,

Note new build 2464 includes some REST remedy

When calling REST service with text reply and no OAuth, the reply was not written into the object

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Not our actual issue but be interesting to see if any changes in the new build help? What build are you using?

BLOMASKY

There is a build (prolly out this coming week), that fixes some other REST issues. However, even when I use Postman, I am having trouble sending a JSON body to my node server. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Wonder if there are any node experts out here???

Bruce

aware_support

There is indeed a bug in Aware IM. We will be releasing a new build with the fix shortly.

aware_support

This should be fixed in build 2465

Jaymer

Dave & Bruce

Bruce was initially talking about a bug concerning the automatically inserted ? after the Base URL
(an issue thats being fixed in the next build after 2465)

But Dave, FYI, I've been POSTing JSON with no issues since several builds before 2461.
I successfully POST this JSON string in a BO field parameter to Gmail API:
{ "end": { "dateTime": "2018-07-05T10:00:00-04:00" },
"start": { "dateTime": "2018-07-05T09:00:00-04:00" },
"attendees": [ { "email": "jaymer@xx.com"} ],
"summary": "Meeting with Jaymer Jaymer" }