GET with setBody possible?

[Iain Argent]

I am fairly new to this, but it appears that the API I am using requires adding a body to a GET request. Here is their curl example:

curl -u '{userEmail}:{userApiToken}' -v -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' -o 'result.xml' -d '<request><layout>1</layout><searchmode>Cany</searchmode><searchvalue>aaron</searchvalue><filtermode></filtermode><filtervalue></filtervalue><special></special><limit>100</limit><start></start><sortfield></sortfield><sortdir></sortdir></request>' https://secure.solve360.com/contacts

I am trying (and failing) to recreate this using Dispatch:

    val myHost = host("secure.solve360.com").secure
    val myRequest = myHost / "contacts"
    val data="<request><layout>1</layout><searchmode>Cany</searchmode><searchvalue>aaron</searchvalue><filtermode></filtermode><filtervalue></filtervalue><special></special><limit>3</limit><start></start><sortfield></sortfield><sortdir></sortdir></request>"
    val secReq = myRequest.as_!("username", "API_key")
      .setHeader("Content-Type", "application/xml")
      .setBody(data)
    val result = Http(secReq OK as.xml.Elem).either
    result() match {
      case Right(content) => println("Content: " + content)
      case Left(StatusCode(401)) => println("Invalid credentials")
      case Left(StatusCode(404)) => println("Not found")
      case Left(StatusCode(code)) => println("Some other code: " + code.toString)
    }
    Http.shutdown

The "content" I get back is the same irrespective of whether I comment out the ".setBody(data)" line.

I expect to get back XML representations of at most 3 "contacts" with the name "Aaron". Instead I get back the first 100 contacts irrespective of name.

I realise that giving a body meaning in a GET request breaks HTTP/1.1 but this is an API I am forced to use. Am I doing something wrong or does Dispatch simply strip out the body in a GET request?

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[Nathan Hamblen]

On 04/27/2014 03:51 AM, Iain Argent wrote:
> I am fairly new to this, but it appears that the API I am using requires
> adding a body to a GET request. Here is their curl example:

GET requests don't normally have a body. Are you sure it's not looking
for a PUT or POST?

Nathan

[Iain Argent]

On Sunday, April 27, 2014 3:33:01 PM UTC+1, n8han wrote:

GET requests don't normally have a body. Are you sure it's not looking
for a PUT or POST?

Nathan

I was surprised, too! I copied the curl example from the section "List" on this page:

http://norada.com/crm-software/external_api_reference_contacts

The curl example they give uses "-X GET" with "-d ...". As far as I can tell this makes curl do a GET with a body, but I might be confused!

How does Dispatch behave if you try to make it do the same thing?