I'm trying to make a HTTP POST request to the google QPX Express API [1] using nodejs and request [2].
My code looks as follows:
// create http request client to consume the QPX API
var request = require("request")
// JSON to be passed to the QPX Express API
var requestData = {
"request": {
"slice": [
{
"origin": "ZRH",
"destination": "DUS",
"date": "2014-12-02"
}
],
"passengers": {
"adultCount": 1,
"infantInLapCount": 0,
"infantInSeatCount": 0,
"childCount": 0,
"seniorCount": 0
},
"solutions": 2,
"refundable": false
}
}
// QPX REST API URL (I censored my api key)
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=myApiKey"
// fire request
request({
url: url,
json: true,
multipart: {
chunked: false,
data: [
{
'content-type': 'application/json',
body: requestData
}
]
}
}, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode === 200) {
console.log(body)
}
else {
console.log("error: " + error)
console.log("response.statusCode: " + response.statusCode)
console.log("response.statusText: " + response.statusText)
}
})
What I'm trying to do is passing the JSON using the multipart argument [3]. But instead of the proper JSON response I got an error (400 undefined).
When I make a request using the same JSON and API Key using CURL instead, it works fine. So there's nothing wrong with my API key or JSON.
What's wrong with my code?
EDIT:
working CURL example:
i) I saved the JSON which I would pass to my request into a file called "request.json":
{
"request": {
"slice": [
{
"origin": "ZRH",
"destination": "DUS",
"date": "2014-12-02"
}
],
"passengers": {
"adultCount": 1,
"infantInLapCount": 0,
"infantInSeatCount": 0,
"childCount": 0,
"seniorCount": 0
},
"solutions": 20,
"refundable": false
}
}
ii) then, in the terminal I switched to the directory in which the newly created request.json file was located and run (myApiKey stands for my actual API Key obviously):
curl -d @request.json --header "Content-Type: application/json" https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=myApiKey
[1] https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/ [2] a http request client designed for nodejs: https://www.npmjs.org/package/request [3] here is an example I found https://www.npmjs.org/package/request#multipart-related [4] QPX Express API is returning 400 parse error
I think the following should work:
// fire request
request({
url: url,
method: "POST",
json: requestData
}, ...
In this case, the Content-type: application/json
header is automatically added.