Posting with Symfony 4.4 HTTP Client not working, status code 422

Question

I want to post info to external api but I get error 422 all the time. Geting info and authorization works fine. I'm using Symfony Http Client, authorization and headers are defined in framework.yaml for now.

Api documentation fragment:

curl "https://business.untappd.com/api/v1/locations/3/custom_menus"
-X POST
-H "Authorization: Basic bmlja0BuZXh0Z2xhc3MuY286OW5kTWZESEJGcWJKeTJXdDlCeC0="
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d '{ "custom_menu": { "name": "Wine selection" } }'

My service fragment:

public function customMenu(): int
{
    $response = $this->client->request(
        'POST',
        'https://business.untappd.com/api/v1/locations/'.$this->getLocationId().'/custom_menus',
        [
            'json' => [
                ['custom_menu' => ['name' => 'Wine selection']],
                ],
        ]
    );

I tried, but I don't really know what to look for, I get right auth, content type, method and url. — dofado, Mar 28 '21 at 12:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '21 at 12:08

There are an error and some missing parameters you didn't include:

The most important : Authorization (if you didn't add it to your framework.yaml file under 'http_client' parameter).
Your link ends with 'custom_menus' not 'menus'.
The content-type.

You can test this correction:

public function customMenu(): int
{
    $response = $this->client->request(
        'POST',
        'https://business.untappd.com/api/v1/locations/'.$this->getLocationId().'/custom_menus', //corrected '/custom_menus'
        [
            'auth_basic' => ['bmlja0BuZXh0Z2xhc3MuY286OW5kTWZESEJGcWJKeTJXdDlCeC0='], // To add
            'headers' => [ // To add
                'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
            ],
            'json' => [
                ['custom_menu' => ['name' => 'Wine selection']],
            ],
        ]
    );

    // .....
}

As I wrote in my question, content type and auth is defined in framework.yaml. I tested authorization and getting information form api- that works. For safety i tested adding auth and headers to service itself before posting question, and that didn't change anything. Yeah, my url here is wrong, edited my question to proper one but that is not where problem is. I tried doing same with other urls from documentation and problem persists. — dofado, Mar 28 '21 at 12:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '21 at 04:34

Try to encode json "manualy", before send. Just like that

//$jsonData = '{ "custom_menu": { "name": "Wine selection" } }';
$jsonData = json_encode(["custom_menu" => ["name" => "Wine selection"]]);
 
$response = $client->request(
    'POST',
    'https://business.untappd.com/api/v1/locations/'.$this->getLocationId().'/custom_menus',
    [
        'headers' => [
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
        ],
        'body' => $jsonData,
    ]
);

Posting with Symfony 4.4 HTTP Client not working, status code 422

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