Cannot access HTTP request body in Scriped Rest API

[Volker1]

Hello everyone,

when I try to access the request body of an HTTP request generated by Postman, I get the following error:

"com.glide.rest.domain.ServiceException: Service error: attempt to access request body is not allowed 

when request method is GET or DELETE",

I don't understand this. I'm not using GET here, I use POST. The resource I created on my API on Snow also uses POST.

I also pass values in the request body, that's why I need to access it. Content type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded which is also supported by my resource in Snow.

The second line causes the error:

        // read values in HTTP body

        requestBody = request.body;

        requestBodyData = requestBody.data;

Can someone please help me?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

you need to use below and then parse it

var reqbody = request.body.dataString;

var parser = new global.JSON();

var parsedData = parser.decode(reqbody);

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Ankur

[Volker1]

No this does not work.

The line

    var reqbody = request.body.dataString

is still causing the same error.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

How are you sending the json body as request? can you share in postman?

It should be as per below screenshot:

Content-Type should be application/json

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[Volker1]

I really appreciate your effort and your help, but please read my post more carefully.

I mentioned that I want to use application/x-www-form-urlencoded, not application/json.

PS: my solution works with application/json anyways. But I still would like to know why application/x-www-form-urlencoded is not working.

(And yes, I edited the supported formats in my API as well and added application/x-www-form-urlencoded)