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REST API / Invalid JSON Request

Hello everyone, i am trying to connect the Power BI Client to a REST API by a Dataset. The Dataset i am tryin to run, looks like this:     I alway get the error, that says, this is an inva...
  • tonmcg's avatar
    7 years ago

    In the body step of your query, it looks like you're passing a JSON object in the body of the request. A JSON parser would recognize the values for jsonrpc and id as numbers instead of strings. It would also have trouble parsing the value you have for method; it wouldn't recognize it as a string.

    I'm not sure what the structure of the request should look like, but it's very likely these values should all be strings.

    Try this instead:

    let
        url = "...",
        bodyContent = [ jsonrpc = "2.0", method = "cmdb.objects.read", params = [apikey = APIKEY], id = "1" ],
        body = Json.FromValue(bodyContent),
        Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents(url, [Headers = [#"Content-Type" = "application/json"], Content = body] ))
    in
        Source

    Note: I assume you have the value for APIKEY defined properly elsewhere.

    If that doesn't work, try making the same request with Postman.  Also, what does the API documentation say about that -32600 status code?