CKAN api

[Steve James]

Hi, I am trying to call a CKAN api package_create http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/

By the looks of things I need to pass a raw json value instead of form data.

I've managed to make further progress when using the Chrome Postman extension but when using Ebase I get errors.

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var d = {
	"name":"my_dataset_name",
	"notes":"A long description of my dataset",
	"owner_org":"organisation"
	}

var response = services.rest.post(u, null, headers, d);

When this gets passed it looks like variable d is converted into a series of key pairs as I get the following error

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Bad request - JSON Error: Error decoding JSON data. Error: JSONDecodeError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)',) JSON data extracted from the request: 'notes=A long description of my dataset&name=my_dataset_name&owner_org=organisation'

I've also tried passing d in the body but CKAN is then not happy that it's a string.

How can I pass the raw value in using Ebase? Or has anyone any experience of calling CKAN api from in Ebase?
Thanks

[Jon]

Normally you would serialize the JSON object and pass it as the body i.e.

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var response = services.rest.post(u, JSON.stringify(d), headers); 

[Steve James]

Thanks Jon, I wasn't totally clear but I've tried that.

I get
Bad request - JSON Error: Could not extract request body data: Bad content type: '; charset="utf-8"'

Thanks

[Jon]

Have you set the content type as a header:

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var headers = {"Content-Type":"application/json"};
var response = services.rest.post(u, JSON.stringify(d), headers); 

[Steve James]

thanks Jon, long week, TGI Friday.