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apipostelixir
thedanotto
thedanotto

Reputation: 7307

post to slack api with httpotion elixir

Just dealing with a syntax error here. Trying to send the payload in the body of the HTTPotion request. Trying to send the data as json, but not really sure where I'm going wrong.

HTTPotion.post "https://hooks.slack.com/services/a00000/b0000/XXXXXXX", [body: "{'channel': '#general', 'username': 'thedanotto', 'text': 'Pokemon are scary!', 'icon_emoji': ':ghost:'}", ["Content-Type": "application/json"]]

=> ** (SyntaxError) iex:1: syntax error before: '['

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 543

Answers (2)

TheAnh
TheAnh

Reputation: 2813

You're missing headers key

It should be like this:

HTTPotion.post "https://hooks.slack.com/services/a00000/b0000/XXXXXXX", [body: "{'channel': '#general', 'username': 'thedanotto', 'text': 'Pokemon are scary!', 'icon_emoji': ':ghost:'}", headers: ["Content-Type": "application/json"]]

Upvotes: 2

Dogbert
Dogbert

Reputation: 222198

You're missing headers: before the headers list. This should work:

HTTPotion.post "https://hooks.slack.com/services/a00000/b0000/XXXXXXX", [body: "{'channel': '#general', 'username': 'thedanotto', 'text': 'Pokemon are scary!', 'icon_emoji': ':ghost:'}", headers: ["Content-Type": "application/json"]]

Upvotes: 3

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