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I've been trying to setup a simple PUT request to an API with no success. The API itself works as intended, used Postman to request the data. GET/POST requests are working fine with PowerQuery.
let
BaseUrl = "https://stackoverflow-63122537.herokuapp.com/demo"
BaseHeaders = [#"Content-Type"="application/json"],
JsonBody = Json.FromValue([A = 1, B = 2]),
Count =
WebAction.Request(
"PUT",
BaseUrl,
[
Headers = [ BaseHeaders ],
Content = JsonBody
]
)
in
CountExpected:
Count should return a number.
Actual result:
PowerBI reports "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
Hi @nathan2399
As the URI in a POST request identifies the resource that will handle the enclosed entity... In contrast, the URI in a PUT request identifies the entity enclosed with the request, i would go witht the POST Request.
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Regards,
Pranit
Thanks for the input Pranit, and I would if I could but sadly the API uses POST for other ops while PUT returns counts (for some reason).
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