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sachin
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11 years ago

help needed Getting error while using Rest Client to make SFDC OAuth user password call

Hi,

 

I am trying to make SFDC Oauth Username password rest api call to get session key, however I keep get error message "error making http request: Bad Request".

 

I configured the domain name in Admin-> System->HTTP Client as  ".salesforce.com"

 

and created the following end point:

 

---endpoint code starts -----------------

<#assign url = "https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token" />
<#assign response = http.client.request("https", "login.salesforce.com", "/services/oauth2/token").body("{ 'grant_type':'password', 'client_id':'parameter', 'client_secret':'parameter', 'username':'parameter', 'password':'parameter' }", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded").post() />
<response>
<#if response.hasError>
<error>${response.error.message}</error>
<error>${response}</error>
<error>${response.error}</error>
<error>${response.status}</error>
<#else>
<content>${response.content}</content>
</#if>
</response>

---endpoint code ends ---------------------------------

 

I get below response to endpoint:

-------endpoint response start ------------------------

<response>
<error>error making http request: Bad Request</error>
<error>lithium.coreapi.webui.template.models.HttpClientResponseTemplateModel@4a048f3b</error>
<error>lithium.coreapi.webui.template.models.HttpClientResponseTemplateModel$Error@71579073</error>
</response>

-------endpoint response ends -------------------------

 

The same call works for me in advanced chrome rest client.

 

Can some one help with issue.

 

Thanks,
Sachin

  • It looks like the body of the request is in a JSON format, but you're specifying the enctype as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".Try changing it to "application/json".

     

    Otherwise, if you need to use "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", change the body to something like this:

    Name=Jonathan+Doe&Age=23&Formula=a+%2B+b+%3D%3D+13%25%21

    See here for more details:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_%28HTTP%29#Use_for_submitting_web_forms

     

  • It looks like the body of the request is in a JSON format, but you're specifying the enctype as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".Try changing it to "application/json".

     

    Otherwise, if you need to use "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", change the body to something like this:

    Name=Jonathan+Doe&Age=23&Formula=a+%2B+b+%3D%3D+13%25%21

    See here for more details:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_%28HTTP%29#Use_for_submitting_web_forms

     

    • sachin's avatar
      sachin
      Mentor

      Thanks Nathan,

       

      Issue got resolved by adding the parameters to the URL as mentioned by you.

       

      Thanks,
      Sachin