Using Guzzle in Laravel with POST - laravel

Question

I want to send a POST request to an external API
Here is my method to call
public function recursub(Request $request) {
$users = User::where('cancel_trial', 1)->get();
foreach($users as $user) {
//dd($user->email);
$url= 'https://api.paystack.co/subscription';
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->request('POST', $url, [
'headers' => [
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer sk_test_0994##############',
],
'form_params' => [
'customer' => '233########',
'plan' => 'PLN_###########',
]
]);
dd($response->getBody());
//dd($response->getBody()->getContents());
}
}
But I keep getting this error when I call the endpoint
GuzzleHttp \ Exception \ ClientException (400)
Client error: POST https://api.paystack.co/subscription resulted in a 400 Bad Request response: { "status": false, "message": "Request body could not be parsed. Make sure request body matches specified content-ty (truncated...)

Answer 1

It's looks like that you send wrong request to API.
If you set application/json maybe you should pass parameter in body, not in form params:
$response = $client->request('POST', $url, [
'headers' => [
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer sk_test_0994##############',
],
'body' => json_encode([
'customer' => '233########',
'plan' => 'PLN_###########',
])
]);
Another information that maybe can be helpful is that you can disable exception with ['http_errors' => false] option (http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/request-options.html#http-errors).