[Koha-devel] Issues sending a JSON request body in a GET request to REST API

[David Cook]

Hi all,

 

With the Koha REST API, there's "Advanced Matching" which uses a JSON body
in a GET request:

 

curl -u koha:koha --request GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/api/v1/patrons/'
--header "Content-Type: application/json" --data-raw '{ "-or": [ {
"surname": { "-like": "Acev%" } }, { "firstname": { "-like": "Hen%" } } ] }'

 

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_REST_API_Users_Guide#Advanced_Matc
hing

 

While this technically works, we really shouldn't be sending a JSON request
body in a GET request. 

 

I'm working on a third-party system, and it's actually preventing me from
sending GET requests with request bodies (since GET requests aren't supposed
to have request bodies), so I can't actually use the API using that system's
built-ins. I'll have to code a workaround. 

 

At some point, we should replace these GET requests with POSTed search
queries I think.

 

David Cook

Senior Software Engineer

Prosentient Systems

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6a Glen St

Milsons Point NSW 2061

Australia

 

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