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Add examples for POST request with custom headers
In my case i wanted to do a post request with a json body but i was experiencing some issues becase the HttpClient was handling the body as it would have been a form input.
I fixed the issue with by overriding ( in my code ) the behavior for the HttpClient#form_encode_body
.
module EventMachine
class HttpClient
# We need to override the bohavior of the gem class, where a hash is considered a form
# and not flexibility is given to deal with json body.
# Please visit https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request
# The issue is at https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/blob/master/lib/em-http/http_encoding.rb#L89
def form_encode_body(body)
body.to_json
end
end
end
Also i set the headers for application/json
in the adapter where the request is done.
class Adapter
HEADERS = {
'content-type' => 'application/json',
'accept' => 'application/json'
}
def send_request(post_url, body)
....
conn = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(post_url)
conn.use EventMachine::Middleware::JSONResponse
response = conn.post(head: HEADERS, body: body)
...
end
end
Maybe we would like to make the gem
able to deal with this case scenario ?