Passing Body Content in Post Snap

[jsmith141]

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 successfully retrieve an access token when calling the oauth/token endpoint in Postman. The issue arises when I try to move this post call into SnapLogic. The call requires certain parameters to be passed through the body and I am not sure how to duplicate this in SnapLogic post snap. Please see the screenshot of the Postman call Body tab below.

I have created a basic account in SnapLogic to store the username and password and my post snap references that account. I am also aware that the credentials of a basic account can be accessed using the “Account.Username” and Account.Password" of the respective referenced account within the snap.

I am just not sure how to build out the body section in the “x-www-form-urlencoded” format as shown in the screenshot? The error I get back when validating this post snap is just a 400: Bad Request.

Any insight/help that anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if additional information is needed to provide assistance.

Thanks,
James

[jsmith141]

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.

[ptaylor]

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)

[jsmith141]

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

[ptaylor]

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

[d_talevski]

@jsmith141 You can try removing the account from the REST Post snap and send the account username and password through pipelines parameters to check if it’s working.