How to make APIFunction get its parameters from the body?
By default it uses the request URI, which is first insecure, and second, won't allow me to pass e.g. images to the function.
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Ultimately the body can be extracted by using HTTPRequestData
HTTPRequestData[]
will return an Association containing properties and values. Usually you can specify the specific property you want, like "Body" (I seem to remember some issues getting "MultipartElements" at some point in time).
obj = CloudDeploy[APIFunction[{}, HTTPRequestData["Body"] &]]
URLExecute[obj, {},
"Body" -> "\"test body\"",
"Headers" -> {"content-type" -> "text/plain" (*or whatever is appropriate*)},
Method -> "POST"]
"test body"
If your API is actually attached to a form, and your header when making the request is something like:
Content-Type: multipart/form-data
you can use the following
CloudDeploy[APIFunction[{"i"-> "Image"}, #i &,"PNG"]]
This will echo back the image "i" (as labeled in your form). I put "PNG" for display purposes, you should change it to fit your needs.
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$\begingroup$ With your addition of POST I'm getting
Missing["NotAvailable"]. $\endgroup$– KubaCommented Jun 10, 2016 at 22:42 -
$\begingroup$ @Kuba: ugh you are right, but without it that means its making a GET request. I am going to look for a workaround. The URLExecute/URLFetch functions are a mess. $\endgroup$– chuyCommented Jun 13, 2016 at 13:22
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$\begingroup$ Yep, I wasn't investigating closer but GET was my concern too. I find them a little bit chaotic too but I blame my limited experience in the area. Looking forward for news from your side then :) $\endgroup$– KubaCommented Jun 13, 2016 at 13:24
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$\begingroup$ @Kuba: it looks like the header needs to be specified. I suppose that isn't too unreasonable, but I would think it would fall back to "text/plain" by default. $\endgroup$– chuyCommented Jun 13, 2016 at 13:37
APIFunction[{}, HTTPRequestData["Body"] &]acceptable? $\endgroup$