I am trying to use Ruby on Rails to communicate with the Salesforce API. I can fetch data easily enough but I am having problems posting data to the server. I am using HTTParty as per Quinton Wall's post here:
https://github.com/quintonwall/omniauth-rails3-forcedotcom/wiki/Build-Mobile-Apps-in-the-Cloud-with-Omniauth,-Httparty-and-Force.com
but all I seem to be able to get from the salesforce server is the error that I am submitting the body as html
{"message"=>"MediaType of 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' is not supported by this resource", "errorCode"=>"UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE"}
the responsible code looks like:
require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'
class Accounts
include HTTParty
format :json
...[set headers and root_url etc]
def self.save
Accounts.set_headers
response = (post(Accounts.root_url+"/sobjects/Account/", :body => {:name => "graham"}.to_json))
end
end
anyone have an idea why the body should be being posted as html and how to change this so that it definitely goes as json so that salesforce doesn't reject it?
Any help would be appreciated. cheers
The Content-Type header needs to be set to "application/json". This can be done by inserting :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} as a parameter to post, ie:
response = post(Accounts.root_url+"/sobjects/Account/",
:body => {:name => "graham"}.to_json,
:headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} )
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