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March 27, 2014
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cfhttpparam question - passing formfield name as an array

  • March 27, 2014
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Hi.  I'm using cfhttp to post data to an API.  An example of one of the parameters required as input by that API is "subscription[planId]".  Question is, how in the world to I pass a sort of "named array" like this where "planId" isn't a variable, it's text.  I apologize that clearly I'm missing something pretty basic here, but... I'm sure missing it. 

Thanks.

P.S.  In case it lends any insight at all, here's a snippet of sample PHP code that is supposed to do this (I cannot confirm, not being a PHP guy):

"subscription" => array("planId" => "1")

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    Turns out I was making a silly mistake.  I knew that would be the case - I just had to keep fighting until I found the silly mistake.  (And of course during the course of fighting one makes all kinds of changes that only complicate things.)

    In my case, somewhere along the way I included a cfhttpparam of <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />, at a time when I thought that I could pass JSON as type "body".  When I went back to passing formfields, I neglected to remove this. 

    Always something silly.

    Thanks.

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    March 27, 2014

    Turns out I was making a silly mistake.  I knew that would be the case - I just had to keep fighting until I found the silly mistake.  (And of course during the course of fighting one makes all kinds of changes that only complicate things.)

    In my case, somewhere along the way I included a cfhttpparam of <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />, at a time when I thought that I could pass JSON as type "body".  When I went back to passing formfields, I neglected to remove this. 

    Always something silly.

    Thanks.

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