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Ludo
Ludo

Reputation: 5280

Send a POST request containing encoded JSON

I am trying to make a POST call containing a JSON encoded form.

Why am i doing that ? I have no choice, i am working the the Facebook API which expects to receive a JSON encoded data and fire an error when receiving JSON.

I get the error TypeError: stringify expects an object when doing:

var datas = JSON.stringify({ some: "JSON" });
request.post('https://graph.facebook.com/...', { form: datas }, function(error,        response, body) {
    //Fail before the callback call
});

How to avoid that ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 499

Answers (1)

kapex
kapex

Reputation: 29999

It is not the JSON.stringify in the first line that fails here, it is the form property which is expected to be an object.

Don't try to send it as form data, just put the JSON text in the body of the request.

var datas = JSON.stringify({ some: "JSON" });
request.post('https://graph.facebook.com/...', { body: datas }, function(error,        response, body) {
  //Fail before the callback call
});

Upvotes: 4

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