[Vtigercrm-developers] [API]Problem with '&' in json

[Sutharsan J]

Hi

There can't be issue in api as we use it several times, but using cURL. May
be url encoding should be done before json encoding, probably urlencode
each field separately the build json. Did you try that?


Thanks
Sutharsan jeganathan

On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 03:38 Sukhdev Mohan <s.mohan at myti.it> wrote:

> Tried that, not working
>
> Il sab 17 apr 2021, 23:57 Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com> ha scritto:
>
>> try url encoding the json string
>>
>>
>> On 17/4/21 23:21, Sukhdev Mohan wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I’m using pentane data integration and importing data into vtiger v7
>> through rest API’s.
>> I’m doing POST request (form-url-encode) and in the body I’ve this
>> elementType=Products&element={productname: “”, productcode: “”,
>> description: “"}
>>
>> Sometimes in the productname or description there is a “&” and as you can
>> guess this breaks the json resulting in error. I’ve tried sending plain
>> text and it doesn’t work either. *How can I proceed? *
>>
>>
>> Probably this is a bug and we need to re-design the API’s expecting the
>> body as a json possible implementation:
>>
>> {
>> element: “ELEMENT”,
>> data: {
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> *Sukhdev Mohan* | *Software Developer*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Joe
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