Hi, I have written a function in order to generate a PUT towards an API, the debug node reports a JSON parse error however. Can somebody please provide me with some suggestions, the problem is related to the definition of the msg.payload: var id = global.get('imsi'); msg.resource = id; // used as…

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What is 'imsi'? Is it an object, an array, etc? I am going to assume it is JSON object. How I would trouble shoot this is I would write the following furnction: var id = global.get('imsi') var msg.payload = id return msg That should give you a good idea of what id is coming is as. Then take th…

Hi, I am quite new in this area, I will provide some additional info and backticks. The point is that I am generating a PUT request with Postman towards my API, including a body text: PUT https://myapi/ and body text: { "Id" : <long id string>, "Timeout" : 3600 } This works fine. I try to perf…

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At a glance, the Function code looks fine - assuming imsi is already defined in global context to a valid value. Wire in a Debug node after the Function node so you can see the actual payload it is generating

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