Level 104
Try specifying that you accept application/json using the acceptJson() convenience method:
$request = Http::acceptJson()
->withHeaders($this->headers())
->post($url, $fields);
Jul 30, 2021
7
Level 1
Retrieve HTTP POST request response body
I'm sending data to an API using this code:
$request = Http::withHeaders($this->headers())
->post($url, $fields);
$this->headers() returns an array with the API key, $fields is an array of fields to send to the API. When I send the request using an HTTP client like Postman or RESTClient I get a JSON response when the request fails; but when I send the request in Laravel, I only end with an empty response body. I tried fiddling with the headers, sendind Accept and Content-Type headers, no difference.
What am I missing? Why is the response body empty when it shouldn't?
Level 1
Just tried, still getting an empty response body.
Level 4
can you share a dd() of $this->headers() output.
Level 1
array:3 [
"Accept" => "application/json"
"Content-type" => "application/json"
"X-Key" => "SECRET_KEY"
]
Level 8
$request = Http::withHeaders($this->headers()) ->post($url, $fields);
Newbie response but try $response[0] and fiddle a bit. Hope the answer finds you.
Level 1
OK, solved it. Don't ask me why, but using this makes it work:
Http::withHeaders($this->headers())
->withBody(json_encode($fields), 'application/json')
->post($url);
No idea why manually filling the request body with JSON instead of using Http::post($url, ['foo' => 'bar']) has an influence on the response body, but still, seems to work.
Level 11
To see the response body I use the printf()
printf(Http::withHeaders($this->headers())
->post($url, $fields));
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