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I need to send a POST request to an API that requires a String as a parameter. I'm using Laravel's HTTP Client to make the requests, but the data format is an array.
$response = Http::acceptJson()->withHeaders([
'Connection' => 'keep-alive',
'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
])->post($url, [ $string ]);
This is the post() function from Illuminate\Http\Client\PendingRequest
/**
* Issue a POST request to the given URL.
*
* @param string $url
* @param array $data
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Client\Response
*/
public function post(string $url, array $data = [])
{
return $this->send('POST', $url, [
$this->bodyFormat => $data,
]);
}
The format I get from the request with a Http::dd()
^ Illuminate\Http\Client\Request {#1381 ▼
#request: GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request {#1378 ▼
-method: "POST"
-requestTarget: null
-uri: GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Uri {#1366 ▶}
-headers: array:6 [▼
"Content-Length" => array:1 [▶]
"User-Agent" => array:1 [▶]
"Host" => array:1 [▶]
"Accept" => array:1 [▼
0 => "application/json"
]
"Connection" => array:1 [▼
0 => "keep-alive"
]
"Content-Type" => array:1 [▼
0 => "application/json"
]
]
-headerNames: array:6 [▶]
-protocol: "1.1"
-stream: GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Stream {#1369 ▶}
}
#data: array:1 [▼
0 => "2g9....wz"
]
}
What I need is that the data has the following format:
data: "2g9....wz"
Try changing the content-type to "text/plain", but the string is always kept inside the array.
data: [ "2g9....wz" => 0 ]
Any solution to send only a string inside the data with HTTP Client? Another PHP library that I can use to make POST requests with a parameter of type string? Am I doing something wrong?
Can't you include the string in the json? Also you could send another array:
Original
$data['dog'] = a query here;
To add more "data"
$data['dog'] = query here for a listing of dogs;
$data['mystring'] = ['url' => 'your_string_here']; //Made up data for example
return Response::json($data);
Just example
Hello @jlrdw,
Yes, the string is a token that I must generate to get a resource. An example is this:
$string = "NtpcFQj9lQQoWuztFpssFoSQTAwbGReBbl6nc4HKYLEm";
@Eze99 try like example:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
$response = Http::post('http://example.com/users', [
'name' => 'Steve',
'role' => 'Network Administrator',
]);
What I need is that the value of the $data is just a string because I need to pass the token to it.
Like this:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
$response = Http::post($url, "NtpcFQj9lQQoWuztFpssFoSQTAwbGReBbl6nc4HKYLEm");
But I think it is not possible, because HTTP Client uses guzzlehttp/guzzle and in the documentation they explain that only an array can be passed to the body of the request :c
@Eze99 send token like:
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