tanweerdev

tanweerdev

Phoenix automatically wraps array request inside a _json field and make it an object. eg I am sending below body

 [
    {
        "activity_model_id": "{{activity_model_id}}",
        "context": "scan shop ABC",
        "card_id": "{{card_id}}"
    },
    {
        "activity_model_id": "{{activity_model_id}}",
        "context": "checking home",
        "card_id": "{{card_id}}"
    }
]

when I inspect/print raw body via a middleware(just for debugging purpose), raw body is correct and matched which is

" [\n    {\n        \"activity_model_id\": \"{{activity_model_id}}\",\n        \"context\": \"scan shop ABC\",\n        \"card_id\": \"73c0da33-89d1-4f2f-9af1-3e282c3a9606\"\n    },\n    {\n        \"activity_model_id\": \"{{activity_model_id}}\",\n        \"context\": \"checking home\",\n        \"card_id\": \"73c0da33-89d1-4f2f-9af1-3e282c3a9606\"\n    }\n]"

But what I actually see in the logs which is being sent to controllers is

Parameters: %{"_json" => [%{"activity_model_id" => "{{activity_model_id}}", "card_id" => "73c0da33-89d1-4f2f-9af1-3e282c3a9606", "context" => "scan shop ABC"}, %{"activity_model_id" => "{{activity_model_id}}", "card_id" => "73c0da33-89d1-4f2f-9af1-3e282c3a9606", "context" => "checking home"}]}

You can see, just before sending body to params, extra _json field is introduced from somewhere.
I also have this config:

config :phoenix, :json_library, Jason

So either this field is introduced by Jason or phoenix itself. currently having no clue, how to get correct request without _json field in controllers. any help is really appreciated. Thanks

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NobbZ

NobbZ

This is not phoenix doing it, it is documented behaviour of Plug.Parsers.JSON:

JSON documents that aren’t maps (arrays, strings, numbers, etc) are parsed into a "_json" key to allow proper param merging.

tanweerdev

tanweerdev OP

Can we avoid it? and get all the params as it is

josevalim

josevalim

Creator of Elixir

You cannot because conn.params is a map. So if we set it to a list, other parts of plug will fail. But the list is store as is under _json. You can also disable Plug.Parsers.JSON and roll your own parser.

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