Recommended Method for Including Nested JSON Data Payloads in HTTP Push?

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What’s the recommended way to include JSON data payloads in a HTTP push?

I can see there’s a tab for “Body”, and I can choose a application/json content type, but because I have a JSON object that has nested objects within it, I can’t seem to use the UI helper for “Edit Key-Value Pairs”.

Am I right that the only way is to use the raw request body mode, and then just use expressions to include a json object from a previous code step? Will that properly encode things?

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Am I right that the only way is to use the raw request body mode, and then just use expressions to include a json object from a previous code step? Will that properly encode things?
Hi , I think this is one way to go. You’ll need to add the header Content-Type: application/json

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Yes, under the Body tab, there’s a Content-Type dropdown for application/json which I’ve set.

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So can I just paste in a reference to a variable that is a JSON object in the raw request body box, or do I have to do something special?

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E.g. like this

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And steps.prepare_trustpilot_data.$return_value.trustpilot_data would be a JSON object

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oh for that you can stringify the object as JSON as this to be sure

{{ JSON.stringify(steps.prepare_trustpilot_data.$return_value.trustpilot_data)}}
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Cool, okay

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Wasn’t sure if I’d have to do that or not

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you can alway test by creating another HTTP trigger, get the HTTP endpoint, put it in your HTTP action, then Test the action

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You should see the HTTP request as a new event in your new HTTP trigger

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Thanks, yeah

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I’ve got it connected to a test trustpilot account anyway, so I guess it’ll either work or not work

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Also I thought I would be able to see the generated request body in the results section of that step anyway