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I have some raw JSON stored in a variable and just want to post it to an API

I have been traversing through Stackoverflow and everywhere else on the web to try and find a solution to my issue..
I am working in Javascript and attempting to POST a small section of JSON to an endpoint in the API i know is working (I have completes the GET and POST manually in Postman)
Here is my issue..
I want dont really want to do the "GET" in my programme I just want to either reference the file or even just store it in a little variable.
So for example I have in my code:
var OauthUpload = {
"objects": [
{
"name": "api",
"serviceID": 16,
"properties": {}
}
],
"version": "integration",
"environment": "redshift"
}
Then I am trying to reference this in the JS function:
function ApiPostOauth (port) {
$.post(OauthUpload, "http://docker.dc.test.com:" + getActualPort(port) + "/rest/v1/oauth/import", runner);
}
But I am having no joy! I have seen a few different silutions but none seem to fit for me.
Basically I want a way to just:
Reference my own JSON as a variable and then insert tht so my function "ApiPostOauth" has that inserted before it runs?
Thanks guys
Steve

I have put together an example for your use. When executing this code, the server will return the same object it is sent. So the 'OauthUpload` object is sent as the request body and the server returns the exact same object. Note: if you don't see output in the output panel when running the sample I will need to restart the server (leave a comment). This is here to demonstrate:
[EDIT] - after re-reading your question, it appears you would like to pass the 'OauthUpload` object into the function. I've updated the example.
You have a mistake in your call to jQuery post() method. As shown in the comments, the first two arguments are reversed in the call to post().
Since you didn't pick up on that, I decided to provide an example using your code. Since I don't have your server, I stood up a server for this example. So the URL and port will be different, but the AJAX call will be the same.
Please pay close attention to the OauthUpload object. Notice the property names are no longer surrounded by ". I removed these quotes because they seemed to be causing you confusion about JavaScript objects and JSON strings (there is no such thing as a JSON Object regardless of what you read on the web - JSON is a string format).
Next, look at the differences between the call made to $.post() in my example and your code. You will see the URL comes first in that call.
let url = "//SimpleCORSEnabledServer--randycasburn.repl.co/rest/v1/oauth/import";
let OauthUpload = {
objects: [{
name: "api",
serviceID: 16,
properties: {}
}],
version: "integration",
environment: "redshift"
}
ApiPostOauth(OauthUpload);
function ApiPostOauth(data) {
$.post(url, data, runner)
}
function runner(data) {
document.querySelector('pre').textContent = JSON.stringify(data, null, 2);
}
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Create json object with javascript

I've tested my REST service with success using Advanced Rest Client, where I'm sending a payload that looks like this:
{
"comments":"test comments",
"internal_verification_areas":[
{
"area_id":"1",
"selected":"1",
"notes":"notes1",
"status":"1"
},
{
"area_id":"2",
"selected":"0",
"notes":"notes2",
"status":"0"
}]
}
As mentioned my REST function executes with success.
I then moved to implement the whole thing on my web-interface and created the internal_verification_areas object as follows:
var verification_areas = {
internal_verification_areas: [
{
area_id:"1", // no need to quote variable names
selected:"1",
notes:"noter",
status:"1"
},
{
area_id:"2", // no need to quote variable names
selected:"1",
notes:"noter2",
status:"1"
}
]
};
The whole thing is then fed into my request like this (comments parameter is fetched from a textarea):
$.post("createInternalVerification.php",{comments: $('textarea#korrigeringer').val(),internal_verification_areas: verification_areas}
createInternalVerification.php will json encode the data and request the service.
The problem is, that i get an error saying: "Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'area_id' cannot be null". I assume there is something wrong with my posted data, but i can't figure out what. From my POV my Advanced Rest Client payload looks similar to the payload i send from my web-interface.
EDIT:
I've noticed that the network tab (google chrome) shows some differences in my payload. I'm returning internal_verification_areas in my response to analyze the difference.
(MY WEB INTERFACE RECEIVES)
{"error":false,"message":"Intern efterprovning oprettet","test":{"internal_verification_areas":[{"area_id":"1","selected":"1","notes":"noter","status":"1"},{"area_id":"2","selected":"1","notes":"noter2","status":"1"},{"area_id":"3","selected":"1","notes":"noter3","status":"1"}]}}
(ADVANCED REST CLIENT RECEIVES)
{"error":false,"message":"Intern efterprovning oprettet","test":[{"area_id":"1","selected":"1","notes":"jAAAAAAA","status":"1","id":"4"},{"area_id":"2","selected":"0","notes":"NEEEEEJ","status":"0","id":"5"}]}

Guess I messed up my understanding of objects and arrays. Turns out my web-interface was sending and array with and object with arrays. Changing it (as shown after this post) fixed my mistake. I'm so sorry zerkms for wasting your precious time and causing an immense annoyance to your unicum skilled mind. I find it more and more frightening to post questions on StackOverflow with the presence of such skilled and godlike figures who constantly remind minions such as myself that Stackoverflow has become the very bedrock of arrogant developers.
var internal_verification_areas = [
{
area_id:"1", // no need to quote variable names
selected:"1",
notes:"noter",
status:"1"
},
{
area_id:"2", // no need to quote variable names
selected:"1",
notes:"noter2",
status:"1"
},
{
area_id:"3", // no need to quote variable names
selected:"1",
notes:"noter3",
status:"1"
}
];

POST to a JSON file using AJAX and only javascript

I am trying to post to a local son file which is saved within the same folder as all my code. I have done the following:
function test(){
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); // new HttpRequest instance
xmlhttp.open("POST", "data/people.json");
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;");
xmlhttp.send(JSON.stringify({name:"John Rambo"}));
}
The above function is run when I click on a button in my html:
<input type="button" onclick="test()">
And my son file looks like this:
{
"People": [
{"name": "tony stark"},
{"name": "iron man"}
]
}
but I keep getting a 404 not found error. is there anything that I am doing wrong?
Apologies if I missed something out if you require more information to answer the question please let me know.
Thanks in advance.

Since I can't comment because I don't have enough reputation, if you want to enter data into your json file, the best thing you can do is:
Get the file and turn the JSON into an Object.
Once you have the object, push more data into it.
Afterwards, save the file / replace it with the object containing the new and the old information.
This is just a simple work around, but as other said in comments, you can't "POST" data into the file unless you do what I've just said.
Hope it helps!

Double check the URL end point.
Should be server script file which is made to accept the request.
And try sending is Key=Value pair.
xmlhttp.send("name=John Rambo");

Odd occurrence in using app.use(parseExpressRawBody())

Maybe this is simple, maybe this is a bug on Parse - would like to know if anyone has had the same problem and a possible solution.
What I'm trying to do:
I'm sending a JSON request from an app called FormEntry to my Parse app
The body comes in like this: json={"someLabel" : "someValue"}
I would like to take the entire body and create a Parse.Cloud.httpRequest over to Zapier to perform some functions.
Now, the problem seems to be this:
On random occasions (i.e. I have no idea why), the body is sent (as shown by the logs) where there is a trailing comma at the end of the last pair in the JSON object. e.g. like this json={"lastLabel" : "lastValue",}
The number of elements in 'normal' and 'incorrect' objects seem to be the same, so it's simply just another comma added. And I have no idea why.
My setup:
Using app.use(parseExpressRawBody()); only and not the standard app.use(express.bodyParser()); which doesn't provide access to the raw body.
Because parseExpressRawBody converts the body to a buffer I need to turn it back into a string to send it in the HTTP request in a meaningful way. Therefore I use: var body = req.body.toString();
When logging this var to the Parse console it looks to be format back from the buffer fine.
And that's about it. Nothing complex going on here but a real annoying bug that I just haven't found a sensible way of understanding. Would SUPER appreciate anyone who has seen this before or who could point me in a direction to focus on.

Just an update on this. Not a solution that answers why there is malformed JSON but a hack to get the right result.
The purpose of the HTTP request was to point over to Zapier so I wrote a Zapier script that would deal with the malformed JSON. Added here for anyone else who needs it.
"use strict";
var Zap = { newSubmission_catch_hook: function(bundle) {
var body = bundle.request.content;
var cleanTop = body.substring(5,body.length);
var cleanChar = cleanTop.length;
var condition = cleanTop.substring(cleanChar-2,cleanChar);
function testCase(condition,cleanTop) {
if (condition != ",}"){
console.log("Everything is fine, returning JSON");
return cleanTop;
}
else {
console.log("Nope! We have an error, cleaning end");
var cleanEnd = cleanTop.substr(0,cleanChar-2) + '}';
console.log("The object now ends with: " + cleanEnd.substr(-10));
return cleanEnd;
}
}
var newBody = JSON.parse(testCase(condition,cleanTop));
return newBody;
}
};

Issue with JSON.parse , don't know why is not parsing everything

I'm developing a web app with Node.js using Sails framework(based on Express) and i'm using a third party image solution called Transloadit (no need to know Transloadit).
Anyway, that's not the problem, i'm been able to implement the Transloadit form and receive the information from their API.
My problem is that, Transloadit gives me the response as a String, and I need to access the response objects, so i'm using var objRes = JSON.parse(req.body.transloadit); to parse it to an JSON object, and when I console.log(objRes); the object is not correctly parsed, i get this: (see all JSON here https://gist.github.com/kevinblanco/9631085 )
{
a bunch of fields here .....
last_seq: 2,
results: {
thumb: [
[
Object
]
]
}
}
And I need the data from the thumb array, my question is, Why is doing that when parsing ?
Here's the entire request req.body object: https://gist.github.com/kevinblanco/9628156 as you can see the transloadit field is a string, and I need the data from some of their fields.
Thanks in advance.

There is nothing wrong with the parsing of the JSON -- in fact there is no problem at all.
consol.log limits the depth of what it is printing which is why you are seeing [object] in the output.
If you want to see the full output in node.js then just use the inspect utility like this;
console.log(util.inspect( yourobject, {depth:null} ));
and that will print the entire content.
Note that this is just an artifact of console.log printing it.