How to bring API JSON text into REST Post Snap?

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to use a JSON file to feed in the body of a response that is working in Postman with curl code like this:

In SnapLogic I added the raw body in a JSON generator and want to feed that into a REST Post Snap. My pipeline looks like this:

With no headers nor queries in Postman, only the JSON/raw body and the service URL, I retrieve results with no issues. However, with Snaplogic I am not receiving output. Has anyone done this? I am told I cannot incorporate the credentials into the headers, it must be in the body…but how do I reconcile this with SnapLogic? No one on my team has worked on something externalized that has functioned in this way.
Thanks!

supratim · Answer

ariana:

dy and the servic

@ariana  you can try below option-

Use mapper and copy entire body {“email”:“”,…} and use target field as $ in mapper.
You don’t need to touch anything related to file upload option, rather add header field like below.
Also make sure you choose snap execution as "validate and execution"  at below.

ariana · Answer

Hi there! Thanks for your help. Here is what I am looking at now, still no output:
Mapper -

Mapper validation output -

POST Snap:

Pipeline:

Edit: I will add that I did try simply copying the body into the mapper with “$” in the Post snap but with the same (lack of) results.

ptaylor · Answer

Change HTTP entity from $entity to JSON.stringify($entity).

ariana · Answer

ptaylor:

$entity to JSON.stringify($entity

Hi ptaylor, thank you for the addition. Do I need to change any other settings if doing that? I am not getting output still ☹️

This is the preview I get when I hover over stringify- is that what I would want?

ariana · Answer

Apologies, I started a new snap to try out your method and it was Execute only. Now I am getting an error. I think that is an improvement over nothing, but need to figure it out.

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