Changing Content-Type to JSON using HTTParty

Question

I am trying to use Ruby on Rails to communicate with the Salesforce API. I can fetch data easily enough but I am having problems posting data to the server. I am using HTTPa

Answer 1

The Content-Type header needs to be set to "application/json". This can be done by inserting :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} as a parameter to post, ie:

response = post(Accounts.root_url+"/sobjects/Account/", 
  :body => {:name => "graham"}.to_json,
  :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} )

Answer 2

You have to set the Content-Type header to application/json. I haven't used HTTParty, but it looks like you have to do something like

response = (post(Accounts.root_url+"/sobjects/Account/", :body => {:name => "graham"}.to_json) , :options => { :headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' } } )

I'm somewhat surpised that the format option doesn't do this automatically.