How to set Form-data in Rest Message

[mohith2]

I searched through the community and could not find sample code to send file attachment through REST Outbound from servicenow .

I tried the below code so far with no luck

var r = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2();

  r.setHttpMethod('post');

  r.setEndpoint("endpoint");

  r.setRequestHeader("Accept","application/json");

  r.setRequestHeader('Access-Token',accesstoken);

    r.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','multipart/form-data');

      r.setRequestHeader('Mime-Type','application/pdf');

    r.setRequestBodyFromAttachment('f8cfa45ddbe5f200ddfc7e7dbf9619f6');//attachment Id

  var response = r.execute();

  var responseBody = response.getBody();

  gs.debug(responseBody);

  var httpStatus = response.getStatusCode();

The error I get is as follows

{"code":"INVALID_MULTIPART","message":"An invalid multipart was specified"}

[brian_]

I didn't like the answer, so I found out an alternate method: putting your form data into a raw text format.

Convert your key: value pair to a raw data format of key=value with an & inbetween value and the next key:

key=value&nextkey=nextvalue&thirdkey=thirdvalue

Then place this into the Content portion of your message

ALSO set a HTTP Header of:

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

[goswami_sudipta]

Thanks Brian. Your approach helped. I needed to pass values to BMC (Outbound REST message) as a Content-Type as application/x-www-form-urlencoded and was able to pass it successfully following your approach.

Thank you very much! 

[benrollins]

This was helpful, but also discovered that you will likely need to run any variables through a URI Encoder process before submitting. 

It just so happened one of our test values had a "&" character in it, and this was causing a problem when populating the content block when sending the POST.  It would treat the character as a break to the next key/value pair.

[ralf_schnell]

Hi,

I love the creative thinking using the 'Content' field - great solution! The official ServiceNow solution for this, I guess, is using Flow Designer. The REST step allows you to simply select "form encoded" and then provide the name-value pairs below. I am using this method successfully in automating webinar operations on the ON24 event platform from my ServiceNow instance.

Kind regards

Ralf Schnell
Senior Platform Evangelist, ServiceNow

[Vivek Verma]

Hi Ralf,

Glad ServiceNow came with excellent solution.

But is it poosible to send From_encoded Request type in rest message without using integrationHub.

Thanks,

Vivek|LinkedIn