Retrieving JSON content - api

Question

i am a beginner on laravel. i have problem on creating my POST API.
i want to use data retrieved from json POST from other application. but it always return null so i did some investigating on the request.
when i return dd($request), the result is
Illuminate\Http\Request {#43 ▼
#json: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag {#35 ▶}
#convertedFiles: []
#userResolver: Closure($guard = null) {#1241 ▼
class: "Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider"
this: Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider {#22 …}
use: {▶}
file: "C:\xampp\htdocs\attendance_online\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider.php"
line: "105 to 107"
}
#routeResolver: Closure() {#1246 ▼
class: "Illuminate\Routing\Router"
this: Illuminate\Routing\Router {#26 …}
use: {▶}
file: "C:\xampp\htdocs\attendance_online\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Router.php"
line: "655 to 657"
}
+attributes: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag {#45 ▼
#parameters: []
}
+request: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag {#35 ▼
#parameters: []
}
+query: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\InputBag {#51 ▼
#parameters: []
}
+server: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ServerBag {#47 ▼
#parameters: array:23 [▶]
}
+files: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\FileBag {#48 ▼
#parameters: []
}
+cookies: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\InputBag {#46 ▼
#parameters: []
}
+headers: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag {#49 ▼
#headers: array:6 [▼
"accept-encoding" => array:1 [▼
0 => "gzip,deflate"
]
"content-type" => array:1 [▼
0 => "application/json"
]
"content-length" => array:1 [▼
0 => "231"
]
"host" => array:1 [▼
0 => "localhost:8000"
]
"connection" => array:1 [▼
0 => "Keep-Alive"
]
"user-agent" => array:1 [▼
0 => "Apache-HttpClient/4.5.5 (Java/12.0.1)"
]
]
#cacheControl: []
}
#content: """
{\n
\t"id_employee" = "4",\n
\t"status" = "1",\n
\t"latitude" = "3.4141414",\n
\t"longitude" = "98.444444",\n
\t"timestamp" = "2020-10-11 09:58:00.0000000",\n
\t"approval" = "1",\n
\t"message" = "this is message",\n
\t"picture_reference" = "this is pic"\n
}
"""
#languages: null
#charsets: null
#encodings: null
#acceptableContentTypes: null
#pathInfo: "/api/Attendance"
#requestUri: "/api/Attendance"
#baseUrl: ""
#basePath: null
#method: "POST"
#format: null
#session: null
#locale: null
#defaultLocale: "en"
-preferredFormat: null
-isHostValid: true
-isForwardedValid: true
-isSafeContentPreferred: null
basePath: ""
format: "html"
}
}
when i return $request->getcontent() the result is
{ "id_employee" = "4", "status" = "1", "latitude" = "3.4141414", "longitude" = "98.444444", "timestamp" = "2020-10-11 09:58:00.0000000", "approval" = "1", "message" = "this is message", "picture_reference" = "this is pic" }
but when i return $request->all() is says
<Empty JSON content>
whenever i use $request->id_employee or any other data, it always return null. when i put parameter on the URL like "?id_employee=1", $request->id_employee will return 1. i do not want to put the data on the URL, so how do i get all the content on $request?
edit:
i already tried
$id_employee = $request->id_employee;
$id_employee = $request->input("id_employee")
$id_employee = $request->input("content.id_employee")
and already confirm that $request->isjson() return 1

Answer 1

What version of Laravel do you have? You should be able to decode the JSON content, like this:
$content = $request->getContent()
$data = json_decode($content, true)
dd(data)
Check that the JSON is valid though - the example that you posted in your original questions had = where the : should normally go! The JSON needs to be valid and if the request has the correct Content-Type header then your call to request->input("employee_id") should work. That it doesn't makes me wonder if the JSON is well-formatted so definitely check that as well.