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Patapinho
Patapinho

Reputation: 37

Spotify Web-API & Transfer User's Playback : malformed JSON

I've been using spotify-web-api-js to interact with Spotify Web API, so far without any trouble.

However, when I try to use the transferMyPlayback() method to change the device, I always receive an error response pointing to a malformed JSON.

response: "{\n  \"error\" : {\n    \"status\" : 400,\n    \"message\" : \"Malformed json\"\n  }\n}"

This method takes a JSON array containing the device ID.

Here's my code for this : 

    var deviceIds = {}
    deviceIds["device_ids"] = [id]

    var deviceIds_JSON = JSON.stringify(deviceIds)

    spotifyApi.transferMyPlayback(deviceIds_JSON)
      .then(function(data){
        console.log(data)
      }, function(err){
        console.log(err)
      });

Console.log(deviceIds_JSON) gives something like this :

{"device_ids":["948b56d03d394e0533f198152b852eef85799df2"]}

I've tried several things to manipulate the JSON, but always end up with an error 400 - malformed JSON message.

I also tried to feed the Spotify Web-API Console Request Body with the deviceIds_JSON output above, which gives me a curl command ... that works perfectly when executed from console. So, yeah ... I'm a bit confused, there.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where the problem might be ?

Thanks in advance <3

Upvotes: 0

Views: 493

Answers (1)

tmt
tmt

Reputation: 26

As specified in doc you should pass an array of string as first argument

Try this:

var deviceIds = [id]
spotifyApi.transferMyPlayback(deviceIds)
.then(...)

Upvotes: 1

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