Using an authorization header with Fetch in React Native

Question

I\'m trying to use fetch in React Native to grab information from the Product Hunt API. I\'ve obtained the proper Access Token and have saved it to State, but d

Answer 1

completed = (id) => {
    var details = {
        'id': id,

    };

    var formBody = [];
    for (var property in details) {
        var encodedKey = encodeURIComponent(property);
        var encodedValue = encodeURIComponent(details[property]);
        formBody.push(encodedKey + "=" + encodedValue);
    }
    formBody = formBody.join("&");

    fetch(markcompleted, {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
        },
        body: formBody
    })
        .then((response) => response.json())
        .then((responseJson) => {
            console.log(responseJson, 'res JSON');
            if (responseJson.status == "success") {
                console.log(this.state);
                alert("your todolist is completed!!");
            }
        })
        .catch((error) => {
            console.error(error);
        });
};

Answer 2

I had this identical problem, I was using django-rest-knox for authentication tokens. It turns out that nothing was wrong with my fetch method which looked like this:

...
    let headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"};
    if (token) {
      headers["Authorization"] = `Token ${token}`;
    }
    return fetch("/api/instruments/", {headers,})
      .then(res => {
...

I was running apache.

What solved this problem for me was changing WSGIPassAuthorization to 'On' in wsgi.conf.

I had a Django app deployed on AWS EC2, and I used Elastic Beanstalk to manage my application, so in the django.config, I did this:

container_commands:
  01wsgipass:
    command: 'echo "WSGIPassAuthorization On" >> ../wsgi.conf'

Answer 3

Example fetch with authorization header:

fetch('URL_GOES_HERE', { 
   method: 'post', 
   headers: new Headers({
     'Authorization': 'Basic '+btoa('username:password'), 
     'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
   }), 
   body: 'A=1&B=2'
 });

Answer 4

It turns out, I was using the fetch method incorrectly.

fetch expects two parameters: an endpoint to the API, and an optional object which can contain body and headers.

I was wrapping the intended object within a second object, which did not get me any desired result.

Here's how it looks on a high level:

fetch('API_ENDPOINT', OBJECT)  
  .then(function(res) {
    return res.json();
   })
  .then(function(resJson) {
    return resJson;
   })

I structured my object as such:

var obj = {  
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Origin': '',
    'Host': 'api.producthunt.com'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    'client_id': '(API KEY)',
    'client_secret': '(API SECRET)',
    'grant_type': 'client_credentials'
  })