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whaleyl
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8 years ago
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Map Incoming JSON Body

I have a requirement for a pipeline that is supposed to accept an incoming JSON body/payload of attributes in place of sending parameters via the task URL for security related reasons. For the sake...
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  • del's avatar
    del
    8 years ago

    The beginning snap should be a JSON Parser that would feed into your Mapper snap.

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del
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8 years ago

The beginning snap should be a JSON Parser that would feed into your Mapper snap.

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whaleyl
New Contributor III
8 years ago

Hi del, thanks for the response.

To clarify, I shouldn’t need to place anything else before the JSON Parser snap correct? Everything that’s being fed to the pipeline via the JSON body/payload will be read by the Parser and then passed to my Mapper?

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    del
    Contributor III
    8 years ago

    That is correct. Two things to note:

    • this may be obvious, but the client/consumer must submit an HTTP POST method instead of a GET method
    • as a matter of practice, the consumer should set the HTTP header Content-Type to "application/json "(although I’m not certain it’s necessary for SnapLogic with the JSON Parser as the beginning snap)
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      whaleyl
      New Contributor III
      8 years ago

      Excellent, both very helpful tips.

      I was able to test this method, and can confirm it works great. Thanks again for the quick help!