[clj-http] POST Request Issues

[Akash Kothawale]

I am trying to write a clojure equivalent of the following python code.

requests.post(url, auth=(username, passwd), data=information)

This is what I came up with.

(client/post url {:basic-auth [username passwd] :form-params information})]

When I try running these with url http://requestb.in/ (A site to test Http Requests) I get the similar information. However, when I try to run the same section of code for an API service, I get 200 with python, but a 400 with clojure.

If I try that with :body information then I get an Exceptionclojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap cannot be cast to [B

What is could possibly be wrong here?

Thanks,

Akash

[kiran kulkarni]

Hello Akash,

You have to use :form-params information and :body information will not work because body needs a "byte-array"
The information that you have provided is not enough to debug this problem. 

I tried to use http://requestb.in/, it doesn't return anything apart from "Ok". IMO this is not comprehensive.
You should try http://httpbin.org/post it returns you JSON of the whole request it received. Try it from Python and Clojure both and compare the responses.

e.g.

$ curl -v -X POST -d "fizz=buzz" http://httpbin.org/post

* About to connect() to httpbin.org port 80 (#0)

*   Trying 54.225.138.124...

* connected

* Connected to httpbin.org (54.225.138.124) port 80 (#0)

> POST /post HTTP/1.1

> User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5

> Host: httpbin.org

> Accept: */*

> Content-Length: 9

> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

>

* upload completely sent off: 9 out of 9 bytes

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

< Content-Type: application/json

< Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:54:28 GMT

< Server: gunicorn/0.17.4

< Content-Length: 440

< Connection: keep-alive

<

{

  "data": "",

  "files": {},

  "headers": {

    "User-Agent": "curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5",

    "Connection": "close",

    "Content-Length": "9",

    "Host": "httpbin.org",

    "Accept": "*/*",

    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

  },

  "json": null,

  "args": {},

  "origin": "122.170.27.53",

  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post",

  "form": {

    "fizz": "buzz"

  }

* Connection #0 to host httpbin.org left intact

}* Closing connection #0

Kiran Kulkarni

http://about.me/k1ran

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