Sending JSON-payload

[diskriminantti]

Hello! I just installed this plugin, and it works pretty well so far! I'm having some issues though, not sure if I'm understanding this plugin correctly. I'm trying to send some data as json, like this:

POST http://httpbin.org/post
Content-Type: application/json

{ "name": "Test"}

I get a response like this in the response window:

POST http://httpbin.org/post
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "args": {},
  "data": "name=Test",
  "files": {},
  "form": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Accept-Encoding": "deflate, gzip, br",
    "Content-Length": "9",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.68.0",
  },
  "json": null,
  "origin": "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX",
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}

I was expecting to get the same data back in the json -field of the response, but it's null as you can see. I checked the output of RestNvimPreview and it gave me this: curl -sSL --compressed -X 'POST' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d 'name=Test' 'http://httpbin.org/post' . Trying to send that from the command line gives me the same response as before.

I kinda figured with the Content-Type header, the data would be sent as json, but it seems like that's not the case. Is this intended behavior, or have I misunderstood something? It's a great plugin nonetheless, thanks for creating it!

[jceb]

Same here. The issue comes from plenary. It doesn't seem to support JSON. Instead, it generates = separated entries that are sent over the wire. See https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim/blob/master/lua/plenary/curl.lua#L108

The issue was caused by commit 33c6829 / issue #102. Instead of a string, a table is returned which triggers plenary's behavior.

[diskriminantti]

Thanks for the heads up! At least for now, I reverted back to commit e5f68db73276c4d4d255f75a77bbe6eff7a476ef which works as expected.

[jackpinto]

Same here! Is there any workaround for it? Beside downgrade rest.nvim?

[kennycallado]

Same here!

[srihari93]

@NTBBloodbath Please revert merging my latest PR, It is the root cause for the issue.

[nagy135]

any progress on this ? I remember reading that maintainer is done with this repo (on reddit) and this would correlate with 12 old last commit. Any forks if so ?

[dung-june]

any progress on this ? I remember reading that maintainer is done with this repo (on reddit) and this would correlate with 12 old last commit. Any forks if so ?

You can consider this fork to resolve this issue: https://github.com/teto/rest.nvim/tree/always-send-string
It works for me :)

[Emptyfruit]

I just installed the plugin for the first time and have this bug.
Neovim 0.8.1

[rochacbruno]

Headers on POST must be lower case

- Content-Type: application/json
+ content-type: application/json