Sakthibalan
I created a post request (localhost:4000/api/students/)
Headers:
‘Accept: application/vnd.api+json’
‘Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json’
Body:
{
"data": {
"type": "student",
"attributes": {
"first_name": "some name",
"last_name": "last name"
}
}
}
I got an error InvalidBody
{
"errors": [
{
"code": "invalid_body",
"id": "a174c29e-5ffe-4cf4-b4a4-97a67f6e65aa",
"meta": {},
"status": "400",
"title": "InvalidBody",
"source": {
"pointer": "data/attributes/last_name"
},
"detail": "Expected only defined properties, got key [\"data\", \"attributes\", \"last_name\"]."
},
{
"code": "invalid_body",
"id": "a6408d19-4271-4753-b86a-134fd009af93",
"meta": {},
"status": "400",
"title": "InvalidBody",
"source": {
"pointer": "data/attributes/first_name"
},
"detail": "Expected only defined properties, got key [\"data\", \"attributes\", \"first_name\"]."
}
],
"jsonapi": {
"version": "1.0"
}
}
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kamaroly
How does your resouce look like?
Sakthibalan
zachdaniel
Two things:
First, The reason for this specific error is that the first and last name are not accepted by the actions. You probably want:
second, you likely want to make the first and last name attributes
public?so that they display in the API.Sakthibalan
Thanks, @zachdaniel @kamaroly, It works good.
kamaroly
The following should also work.