Rest API request body

[Khanna Ji]

How to send data in the below format?

"name": "Invalid Test",
"created": {
"date_time": "2018-04-18T15:33:00",
"time_zone": "America/New_York"
},

I have able to send data for the name field but not able to send for created since it has some different format. In Rest Message variable substitution related list, we have one to one field mapping. like name to name, date_time to date_time, number to number but this is something different.

Anybody share some idea how to handle this?

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

Hi Swathi,

Have those many variable substitutions in your rest message function and substitute those individually using setStringParameter()

your request body before substitution should look like

"name": "${name}",
"created": {
"date_time": "${date_time}",
"time_zone": "${time_zone}"
},

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Ankur

[Khanna Ji]

currently I have a business rule in which I am setting value below like this

r.setStringParameterNoEscape('name', current.short_description);

how to set for this? Can you set it and give me one example please?

"created": {

"date_time": "2018-04-18T15:33:00",

"time_zone": "America/New_York"

}

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Swathi,

Once you have defined the variable substitution for the other 2 variables also have this in your business rule

r.setStringParameterNoEscape('date_time', current.<dateTimeField>);

r.setStringParameterNoEscape('time_zone', timeZone);

For timezone if you want to set system time zone then use gs.getProperty("glide.sys.default.tz")

if you want the user's timezone in whose session this BR triggers then use this gs.getUser().getTZ()

var timeZone  = use either of above 2 lines of code as per timezone required.

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Thanks
Ankur

[Khanna Ji]

Got it, in the content field itself I modified as you said and it worked.

"created": {
"date_time": "${date_time}",
"time_zone": "${time_zone}"
}