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Question

Nested parameters in Body Request not structured well

  • 5 October 2021
  • 1 reply
  • 381 views
H
Userlevel 1

Hello,

I am currently working on an APP in Zapier, where I created a module to POST the data to the API.

I have this example structure how should the body parameters send to the endpoint:

 

 { 

  "orderNumber": "ABC-123-456",
  "shopToken": "SHOP1",
  "language": "de",
  "customerNumber": "654321",
  "shippingAddress": {
    "firstName": "Test",
    "lastName": "Test",
    "street": "Main Street",
    "streetNumber": "17a",
    "city": "Test",
    "postalCode": "12345",
    "country": "DE",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "addition3": "string",
    "addition2": "string",
    "addition1": "string",
    "department": "Marketing",
    "company": "Test GMBH",
    "salutation": "Herr"
  },
  "billingAddress": {
    "firstName": "Test",
    "lastName": "Test",
    "street": "Main Street",
    "streetNumber": "17a",
    "city": "Test",
    "postalCode": "12345",
    "country": "DE",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "addition3": "string",
    "addition2": "string",
    "addition1": "string",
    "department": "Marketing",
    "company": "Test GMBH",
    "salutation": "Herr"
  },
  .

I am using in the Zapier Platfrom UI to build the modules where I have add the line item group called shippingAddress and the other called billingAddres.

 

const options = {
  url: 'https://api.paqato.com/v3/orders',
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json'
  },
  params: {
      'token': bundle.inputData.token,
  },
  body: {
    'orderNumber': bundle.inputData.orderNumber,
    'shopToken': bundle.inputData.shopToken,
    'language': bundle.inputData.language,
    'customerNumber': bundle.inputData.customerNumber,
    'shippingAddress': bundle.inputData.shippingAddress,
    'billingAddress': bundle.inputData.billingAddress
  }
}

return z.request(options)
  .then((response) => {
    // trying to see log the input, but they don't show in Zapier UI console. 
    console.log(bundle.inputData);
    response.throwForStatus();
    const results = response.json;
    return results;
  });


However, I am sending in this way the body parameters, but the API response with the message that parameters shippingAddress.firstName… is missing.


Is this the right way how I am sending the parameter like Shipping Address which is Line Item Group and contains the information like FirstName, LastName etc?

Is there any way that I can view the Request Parameters in Zapier UI (Web Builder)?

Looking forward to your help/advice!

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1 reply

H
Userlevel 1

Currently ZAPIER Platform UI isn’t rendering the Line Items Group as nested/collection like it said in documentation.

I have find a solution till this it will be fixed in the future:
Instead to get the access of fields like a line items, I can access directly and add to an object parameter:


const shippingAddress = {};
shippingAddress["lastName"] = bundle.inputData.lastName;
shippingAddress["street"] = bundle.inputData.street;
shippingAddress["city"] = bundle.inputData.city;
shippingAddress["postalCode"] = bundle.inputData.postalCode;
shippingAddress["country"] = bundle.inputData.country;

// in the options I add then 
const options = {
  ....
  body: {

   ...,
  'shippingAddress': shippingAddress,
  }
}



 

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