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jsmith141
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Passing Body Content in Post Snap

Hi, This is a very novice question, but I am having trouble with a post request snap. This is just to authenticate with the RingCentral platform to receive a token for API consumption. I am able to...
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jsmith141
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Oh I apologize for the confusion, I already had that specific header in place We are successfully using the account.username and account.password in another pipeline i.e. in the HTTP entity field of the POST snap.

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ptaylor
Employee
4 years ago

Wow! You’re right. I guess I hadn’t tried it with exactly the right syntax. This expression works just fine in the HTTP Entity field:

"grant_type=password&username=" + account.username +"&password=" + encodeURIComponent(account.password)

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    jsmith141
    New Contributor III
    4 years ago

    Oh yeah the statement itself validates, but I am still getting a 400 bad request error

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      ptaylor
      Employee
      4 years ago

      Let’s see a screenshot of your REST Post snap settings.