HTTP form-encoding payload with nested arrays

Asked Sep 21 '17 at 05:20

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I'm working with a third-party HTTP API like this:

curl https://secure.phabricator.com/api/maniphest.edit \
    -d "api.token=${API_TOKEN}" \
    -d "transactions[0][type]=subscribers.add" \
    -d "transactions[0][value][0]=${OWN_USER_PHID}" \
    -d "transactions[0][value][1]=${ANOTHER_USER_PHID}"

Basically it's a POST request with a request body like this (if written in Python syntax):

{"api.token": "...", "transactions": [{"type": "...", "value": ["...", "..."]}]

You can see that transactions is a nested array.

How do I encode such payload in Python? I'm using requests to make the request if that matters.

edited Sep 22 '17 at 06:37

asked Sep 21 '17 at 05:20

Ethan

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this is a get request right? – TheChetan Sep 21 '17 at 05:25
`POST`. See the `curl` command, with `-d` argument. Let me edit the question to be more clear. – Ethan Sep 21 '17 at 05:26
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You need to json encode the python dictonary. So `import json` and then `request.post(url, data = json.dumps(body))` – TheChetan Sep 21 '17 at 05:30
This will help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35974071/4110233 – TheChetan Sep 21 '17 at 05:46
Thanks but the request body should be form-encoded. See the `curl` command in the question. The JSON (or Python dict) format is only for showing the structure of the request body. – Ethan Sep 21 '17 at 05:59
See the link! Its for form-encoded version – TheChetan Sep 21 '17 at 06:02
Solution on `request` or `server` ? Cheap is on `request` ! Change your request type/pattern. – dsgdfg Sep 21 '17 at 08:47
I have no control over the API. It's a third-party API. – Ethan Sep 22 '17 at 06:38

HTTP form-encoding payload with nested arrays

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