Rest-client POST without a payload

Question

I am trying to POST using Rest-Client gem in Ruby, and I keep getting a return from the web service as Error 414 Unsupported Media Type, because I am setting the payload argument as ''

Example

RestClient.post 'https://username:password@remotesystem/api/v1/applications/44204093/publishUpdates','' ,:accept =>  'json'

The issue is that the web service does not want or need a payload for this resource, but the RestClient feels the need to have one specified.

Anyone know how to do a post with rest client and not have to specify a payload argument?

thanks

Answer 1

For post I believe the method is url, payload, header

url = 'https://username:password@remotesystem/api/v1/applications/44204093/publishUpdates'
header = {'Accept' => 'application/json'}
RestClient.post url, {}, header

This is off the top of my head, but this tripped me up as well.

Answer 2

Gem is rest-client 1.8.0, most current stable one. I am also getting this error RestClient::UnsupportedMediaType: 415 Unsupported Media Type from /Users/Ben/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5@caredox/gems/rest-client-1.8.0/lib/restclient/abstract_response.rb:74:in `return!'

For calling post and response is a JSON

RestClient.post(url,
                    {
                      :arg1 => var1
                    },
                    {:Authorization => "Bearer blahblah",
                     :content_type => :json,
                     :accept => :json
                    }
    )

Answer 3

This started happening for me in ruby 2.4. Ruby 1.9 didn't have this problem, for the same version of rest-client. If no payload is specified in the call, the content-type header was being set to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' which caused the server to say 'No operation matching request path ...' and return '415 Unsupported Media Type'. The solution was to explicitly set content-type to nil in the call:

RestClient::Request.execute(:url => query, :ssl_version => 'TLSv1', :method => 'post', :headers => {'Content-Type' => nil})