Question

Send multiple line items to API

  • 14 December 2021
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  • Anonymous
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Hi,

I’m trying to create a new invoice on Xero using the API, but i’m running into an issue when trying to send multiple line items to Xero. 

 

My line item formatter:
 

 

My create invoice step, with error:
 

 

Here’s my code:

const perform = async (z, bundle) => {
const options = {
url:
'https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices/',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json',
Authorization: `Bearer ${bundle.authData.access_token}`,
'Xero-tenant-id': bundle.inputData.TenantID,
},
params: {
},
body: {
Type: 'ACCREC',
Status: 'AUTHORISED',
DueDate: bundle.inputData.DueDate,
InvoiceNumber: bundle.inputData.InvoiceNumber,
Contact: {
ContactID: bundle.inputData.ContactID
},
LineItems: [
bundle.inputData.LineItems
],
},
};

return z.request(options).then((response) => {
response.throwForStatus();
const results = response.json;

// You can do any parsing you need for results here before returning them

return results;
});
};

module.exports = {
operation: {
perform: perform,
inputFields: [
{
key: 'TenantID',
label: 'Organisation',
type: 'string',
default: '389eced2-4a0a-4b2a-adb5-02c67183e5ef',
required: true,
},
{
key: 'ContactID',
label: 'Contact ID',
type: 'string',
required: true,
},
{
key: 'InvoiceNumber',
label: 'Invoice Number',
type: 'string',
required: true,
},
{
key: 'DueDate',
label: 'Due Date',
type: 'string',
required: true,
},
{
key: 'LineItems',
label: 'Line Items',
type: 'string',
required: true,
},
],
},
key: 'create_new_proforma_invoice',
noun: 'Pro forma',
display: {
label: 'Create pro forma invoice',
description: 'Creates a new pro forma invoice on Xero',
hidden: false,
important: true,
},
};

 

It’s throwing the following error:

The app returned "JSON for post data was invalid,Error converting value "{ "Description": "my test text here...".

 

It doesn’t seem to like the line item data that I passed in.  Any ideas how to fix?


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Brad, is there a particular reason you’re using the XERO API directly instead of just using the Xero zap? The zap makes handling line items really easy, as it loops through arrays to fill in the fields. For example, create arrays of SKU’s, Descriptions, Quantities, Unit Prices, etc. and feed those arrays to the Item Code, Description, Quantity, and Unit Price fields in the Zap and it will handle it all for you.