Examples of WebMethod.Post(...)

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Anonymous wrote:

Hi all,

I'm interested in updating data sources via a REST API based on information generated from a report, but I'm struggling to understand how to use the WebMethod.Post(...) function. There's no documentation that explains this API or provides an example on how it can be used. Can anyone provide some insight on how to make POST calls within Power BI?

Thanks in advance!
Martin

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Anonymous

May I know why you'd like to send POST request in Power BI? Usually to get data, it is to call a GET request. Anyway, you can try

below sample which calls the POST API of streaming dataset.

let
     
    url = "https://api.powerbi.com/beta/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47/datasets/29f1e104-5e56-4247-8712-8f109102109f/rows?key=cZs8uA30GFpBHTi8bCSEbt2RK6fZn3QuZDnp6pgsyk1JofKe49WjSXxbBiMlqb1NXjkCb5sSHeNS52GFIxbCnA%3D%3D",
    body = "
[
{
""VALUE"" :198.6
}
]
",
    Source = Web.Contents(url,[Headers = [#"Content-Type"="application/json"], Content = Text.ToBinary(body)])
in
    Source