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@Snapey could you give me a answer if you have the solutio of this problem?
Jul 28, 2018
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Trying to build rest api using postman
Hello everyone. Currently I am working on a project where I am sending data using postman to my laravel app. I want to use laravel raw while the content type is html or plain text and I want to capture the data in laravel controller. So far, I succeeded using json. But I dont want to use json. Everytime I send data It gets me empty array. I also disabled the csrf token for that route. The code is added below:
//I tried using this but shows empty array
public function getData(Request $request){
$p = $_POST;
dd($p);
}
//I also tried this
public function getData(Request $request){
dd($request->all());
}
Everytime gives me empty array. I tried using html raw like following:
<input type="hidden" name="testing" value="v1>
Level 74
Are you using GET or POST?
If you are using GET you can try this
dd($request->query()):
If you are using POST you need to set the proper request headers. If I'm not misstaking there are two different kinds.
Level 2
I am using post. I am not setting header because after getting the result I can see that the postman automatically set the header.
In the raw I wrote like this for html:
<input type="hidden" name="testing" value="v1>
Is it okay or do I have to create a entire form in the raw? I tried creating a form but it does not work either.
Level 122
You don't post a form html with postman, you send the form data (if you want to pretend the data came from a client form)
In postman, in the Body section, enter key:value pairs
Level 2
You meant in JSON format
Level 122
Only you know what sort of API you are trying to build?
Level 8
When you post a form, the HTML code that generates that form doesn't get sent to the server. It gets encoded into a query string, so your hidden example would be testing=v1.
In postman, you can do that in the raw field (field1=somedata&field2=somedata). It's the same as a URL query string, but you must make sure you URL encode everything. The easier solution is to select form-data in Postman and just fill in the field names and values. Then it takes care of that part for you.
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