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RestSharp defaulting Content-Type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded on POST

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RestSharp seems to not allow me to override the Content-Type for a post request. I've followed the directions found here to no avail. I've also tried manually setting the header content type to application/json via request.AddHeaders("content-type", "application/json");

Examples of the request execution:

private IRestResponse ExecuteRequest<T>(string resource, Method method, T model)
{
    var client = CreateRestClient();
    var request = new RestRequest(resource, method) 
    { 
        RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json 
    };
    var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(model);

    request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");
    request.AddHeader("User-Agent", "Fiddler");
    request.Parameters.Clear();
    request.AddParameter("auth_token", _apiKey);
    request.AddParameter("application/json", json, ParameteType.RequestBody);

    return client.Execute(request); 
}

The response error message:

{
  "error": {
  "code": 400,
  "message": "The request requires a properly encoded body with the 'content-type' header set to '['application/json']",
  "type": "Bad Request" }
}

Fiddler request raw data:

POST  **omitted** HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, application/xml, text/json, text/x-json,text/javascript, text/xml
User-Agent: RestSharp/105.0.1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: **omitted**
Content-Length: 51
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive

As you can see, the request Content-Type is still application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Any ideas? (thanks in advance)


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Anonymous

- 6 years ago

It appears this is a misunderstanding of how RestSharp interprets parameters for post requests. From John Sheehan's post on the google group:

If it's a GET request, you can't have a request body and AddParameter adds values to the URL querystring. If it's a POST you can't include a POST parameter and a serialized request body since they occupy the same space. You could do a multipart POST body but this is not very common. Unfortunately if you're making a POST the only way to set the URL querystring value is through either string concatenation or UrlSegments:

var key = "12345";
var request = new RestRequest("api?key=" + key);
// or
var request = new RestRequest("api?key={key});
request.AddUrlSegment("key", "12345");

My revised Execute request method that now works looks like this:

private IRestResponse ExecuteRequestAsPost<T>(T model, string resource, Method method)
{
    resource += "?auth_token={token}";
    var client = CreateRestClient();
    var request = new RestRequest(resource, method) { RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json };
    var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(model);
    request.AddHeader("User-Agent", "Fiddler");

    request.AddUrlSegment("token", _apiKey);
    request.AddParameter("application/json", json, ParameterType.RequestBody);

    return client.Execute(request);
}
 

- 6 years ago

It appears this is a misunderstanding of how RestSharp interprets parameters for post requests. From John Sheehan's post on the google group:

If it's a GET request, you can't have a request body and AddParameter adds values to the URL querystring. If it's a POST you can't include a POST parameter and a serialized request body since they occupy the same space. You could do a multipart POST body but this is not very common. Unfortunately if you're making a POST the only way to set the URL querystring value is through either string concatenation or UrlSegments:

var key = "12345";
var request = new RestRequest("api?key=" + key);
// or
var request = new RestRequest("api?key={key});
request.AddUrlSegment("key", "12345");

My revised Execute request method that now works looks like this:

private IRestResponse ExecuteRequestAsPost<T>(T model, string resource, Method method)
{
    resource += "?auth_token={token}";
    var client = CreateRestClient();
    var request = new RestRequest(resource, method) { RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json };
    var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(model);
    request.AddHeader("User-Agent", "Fiddler");

    request.AddUrlSegment("token", _apiKey);
    request.AddParameter("application/json", json, ParameterType.RequestBody);

    return client.Execute(request);
}
 

- 6 years ago

It appears this is a misunderstanding of how RestSharp interprets parameters for post requests. From John Sheehan's post on the google group:

If it's a GET request, you can't have a request body and AddParameter adds values to the URL querystring. If it's a POST you can't include a POST parameter and a serialized request body since they occupy the same space. You could do a multipart POST body but this is not very common. Unfortunately if you're making a POST the only way to set the URL querystring value is through either string concatenation or UrlSegments:

var key = "12345";
var request = new RestRequest("api?key=" + key);
// or
var request = new RestRequest("api?key={key});
request.AddUrlSegment("key", "12345");

My revised Execute request method that now works looks like this:

private IRestResponse ExecuteRequestAsPost<T>(T model, string resource, Method method)
{
    resource += "?auth_token={token}";
    var client = CreateRestClient();
    var request = new RestRequest(resource, method) { RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json };
    var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(model);
    request.AddHeader("User-Agent", "Fiddler");

    request.AddUrlSegment("token", _apiKey);
    request.AddParameter("application/json", json, ParameterType.RequestBody);

    return client.Execute(request);
}