How can I use Guzzle to send a POST request in JSON?

Question 1

For Guzzle <= 4:

It's a raw post request so putting the JSON in the body solved the problem

$request = $this->client->post(
    $url,
    [
        'content-type' => 'application/json'
    ],
);
$request->setBody($data); #set body!
$response = $request->send();

Question 2

For Guzzle 5, 6 and 7 you do it like this:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client();

$response = $client->post('url', [
    GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::JSON => ['foo' => 'bar'] // or 'json' => [...]
]);

Docs

Question 3

The simple and basic way (guzzle6):

$client = new Client([
    'headers' => [ 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' ]
]);

$response = $client->post('http://api.com/CheckItOutNow',
    ['body' => json_encode(
        [
            'hello' => 'World'
        ]
    )]
);

To get the response status code and the content of the body I did this:

echo '<pre>' . var_export($response->getStatusCode(), true) . '</pre>';
echo '<pre>' . var_export($response->getBody()->getContents(), true) . '</pre>';

Question 4

This worked for me (using Guzzle 6)

$client = new Client(); 
$result = $client->post('http://api.example.com', [
            'json' => [
                'value_1' => 'number1',
                'Value_group' =>  
                             array("value_2" => "number2",
                                    "value_3" => "number3")
                    ]
                ]);

echo($result->getBody()->getContents());

Question 5

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$body['grant_type'] = "client_credentials";
$body['client_id'] = $this->client_id;
$body['client_secret'] = $this->client_secret;

$res = $client->post($url, [ 'body' => json_encode($body) ]);

$code = $res->getStatusCode();
$result = $res->json();

Question 6

You can either using hardcoded json attribute as key, or you can conveniently using GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::JSON constant.

Here is the example of using hardcoded json string.

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client();

$response = $client->post('url', [
    'json' => ['foo' => 'bar']
]);

See Docs.

Question 7

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'http://example.com/api']);

$response = $client->post('/save', [
    'json' => [
        'name' => 'John Doe'
    ]
]);

return $response->getBody();

Question 8

This works for me with Guzzle 6.2 :

$gClient =  new \GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'www.foo.bar']);
$res = $gClient->post('ws/endpoint',
                            array(
                                'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json'),
                                'json'=>array('someData'=>'xxxxx','moreData'=>'zzzzzzz')
                                )
                    );

According to the documentation guzzle do the json_encode

Question 9

Solution for $client->request('POST',...

For those who are using $client->request this is how you create a JSON request:

$client = new Client();
$res = $client->request('POST', "https://some-url.com/api", [
    'json' => [
        'paramaterName' => "parameterValue",
        'paramaterName2' => "parameterValue2",
    ]
    'headers' => [
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    ]
]);

Guzzle JSON Request Reference

Question 10

Php Version: 5.6

Symfony version: 2.3

Guzzle: 5.0

I had an experience recently about sending json with Guzzle. I use Symfony 2.3 so my guzzle version can be a little older.

I will also show how to use debug mode and you can see the request before sending it,

When i made the request as shown below got the successfull response;

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$headers = [
        'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $token,        
        'Accept'        => 'application/json',
        "Content-Type"  => "application/json"
    ];        

    $body = json_encode($requestBody);

    $client = new Client();    

    $client->setDefaultOption('headers', $headers);
    $client->setDefaultOption('verify', false);
    $client->setDefaultOption('debug', true);

    $response = $client->post($endPoint, array('body'=> $body));

    dump($response->getBody()->getContents());

Question 11

@user3379466 is correct, but here I rewrite in full:

-package that you need:

 "require": {
    "php"  : ">=5.3.9",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^3.8"
},

-php code (Digest is a type so pick different type if you need to, i have to include api server for authentication in this paragraph, some does not need to authenticate. If you use json you will need to replace any text 'xml' with 'json' and the data below should be a json string too):

$client = new Client('https://api.yourbaseapiserver.com/incidents.xml', array('version' => 'v1.3', 'request.options' => array('headers' => array('Accept' => 'application/vnd.yourbaseapiserver.v1.1+xml', 'Content-Type' => 'text/xml'), 'auth' => array('username@gmail.com', 'password', 'Digest'),)));

$url          = "https://api.yourbaseapiserver.com/incidents.xml";
        
$data = '<incident>
<name>Incident Title2a</name>
<priority>Medium</priority>
<requester><email>dsss@mail.ca</email></requester>
<description>description2a</description>
</incident>';

    $request = $client->post($url, array('content-type' => 'application/xml',));

    $request->setBody($data); #set body! this is body of request object and not a body field in the header section so don't be confused.

    $response = $request->send(); #you must do send() method!
    echo $response->getBody(); #you should see the response body from the server on success
    die;

--- Solution for * Guzzle 6 * --- -package that you need:

 "require": {
    "php"  : ">=5.5.0",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~6.0"
},

$client = new Client([
                             // Base URI is used with relative requests
                             'base_uri' => 'https://api.compay.com/',
                             // You can set any number of default request options.
                             'timeout'  => 3.0,
                             'auth'     => array('you@gmail.ca', 'dsfddfdfpassword', 'Digest'),
                             'headers' => array('Accept'        => 'application/vnd.comay.v1.1+xml',
                                                'Content-Type'  => 'text/xml'),
                         ]);

$url = "https://api.compay.com/cases.xml";
    $data string variable is defined same as above.


    // Provide the body as a string.
    $r = $client->request('POST', $url, [
        'body' => $data
    ]);

    echo $r->getBody();
    die;

Question 12

Simply use this it will work

   $auth = base64_encode('user:'.config('mailchimp.api_key'));
    //API URL
    $urll = "https://".config('mailchimp.data_center').".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/batches";
    //API authentication Header
    $headers = array(
        'Accept'     => 'application/json',
        'Authorization' => 'Basic '.$auth
    );
    $client = new Client();
    $req_Memeber = new Request('POST', $urll, $headers, $userlist);
    // promise
    $promise = $client->sendAsync($req_Memeber)->then(function ($res){
            echo "Synched";
        });
      $promise->wait();

Question 13

I use the following code that works very reliably.

The JSON data is passed in the parameter $request, and the specific request type passed in the variable $searchType.

The code includes a trap to detect and report an unsuccessful or invalid call which will then return false.

If the call is sucessful then json_decode ($result->getBody(), $return=true) returns an array of the results.

    public function callAPI($request, $searchType) {
    $guzzleClient = new GuzzleHttp\Client(["base_uri" => "https://example.com"]);

    try {
        $result = $guzzleClient->post( $searchType, ["json" => $request]);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        $error = $e->getMessage();
        $error .= '<pre>'.print_r($request, $return=true).'</pre>';
        $error .= 'No returnable data';
        Event::logError(__LINE__, __FILE__, $error);
        return false;
    }
    return json_decode($result->getBody(), $return=true);
}

Question 14

The answer from @user3379466 can be made to work by setting $data as follows:

$data = "{'some_key' : 'some_value'}";

What our project needed was to insert a variable into an array inside the json string, which I did as follows (in case this helps anyone):

$data = "{\"collection\" : [$existing_variable]}";

So with $existing_variable being, say, 90210, you get:

echo $data;
//{"collection" : [90210]}

Also worth noting is that you might want to also set the 'Accept' => 'application/json' as well in case the endpoint you're hitting cares about that kind of thing.

Question 15

Above answers did not worked for me somehow. But this works fine for me.

 $client = new Client('' . $appUrl['scheme'] . '://' . $appUrl['host'] . '' . $appUrl['path']);

 $request = $client->post($base_url, array('content-type' => 'application/json'), json_encode($appUrl['query']));