REST.post

REST.post() Function

 Note: This function can only be used in a Trusted Macro

• Introduced in version 1.5.0

Perform an HTTP post request to the specified URL to create a resource.

Usage

REST.post(url, payload, mediaType, getFullResponse)
REST.post(url, payload, mediaType, headers, getFullResponse)

Parameters

• url - String containing the URL to the resource or collection of resources.
• payload - JSON object containing the key:value pairs.
• mediaType - String containing a MIME type and charset. See example, but note that any character encoding other than UTF-8 will be extremely difficult to produce in MapTool.
• headers - JSON object containing header key:value pairs where the value will be an array of 1 or more strings. Example: '{"X-Header-Name": ["value"]}'
• getFullResponse - Boolean (0:1). True(1) to get full response.

Returns

HTTP response as JSON (if full response) or server response, usually JSON but can be XML, HTML, or other formats.

Note: If a post fails with getFullResponse set to false, an error will be produced with a Status Code of 400. Set getFullResponse to true(1) for more detail.

Example

Create a user with a post request.

[h: baseurl = "https://reqres.in"]
[h: path = "/api/users"]
[h: mediaType = "application/json; charset=utf-8"]
[h: getFullResponse = 1]

[h: payload = '{ "name": "morpheus", "job": "leader" }']

[h: response = REST.post(baseurl + path, payload, mediaType, getFullResponse)]

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<pre>
[r: json.indent(response, 2)]
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Returns:

{
  "status": 201,
  "headers":   {
    "access-control-allow-origin": ["*"],
    "cf-ray": ["4b92503c1f49772a-LAX"],
    "content-length": ["84"],
    "content-type": ["application/json; charset=utf-8"],
    "date": ["Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:13:19 GMT"],
    "etag": ["W/\"54-Iq8tAhIi7JekRXqEAyUkl9PsnwI\""],
    "expect-ct": ["max-age=604800, report-uri=\"https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct\""],
    "server": ["cloudflare"],
    "set-cookie": ["__cfduid=dd8f9e69613d9ab995b4365e36bcc2e181552860799; expires=Mon, 16-Mar-20 22:13:19 GMT; path=/; domain=.reqres.in; HttpOnly"],
    "x-powered-by": ["Express"]
  },
  "body":   {
    "name": "morpheus",
    "job": "leader",
    "id": "996",
    "createdAt": "2019-03-17T22:17:50.616Z"
  }
}

See Also

RESTful Functions Overview