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  • 20 July 2020
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I'm trying to send a long string over the API. However, I cannot find out how to properly format/encode the string in order for Pipefy to simply add the text to the database record.

Here's how I'm building the query:

return `mutation {
createTableRecord(input: {
table_id: "**",
fields_attributes: [
{field_id: "what", field_value: "${data.firstName}"},
{field_id: "nom", field_value: "${data.lastName}"},
{field_id: "email", field_value: "${data.Email}"},
{field_id: "cellulaire", field_value: "${data.Phone}"},
{field_id: "site_web", field_value: "${data.formRef}"},
{field_id: "message_soumis", field_value: "${data.Message}"},Here, data.Message has a long text in which there are newlines. This breaks it all:400 - {"errors":[{"locations":[{"column":51,"line":10}],"message":"token recognition error at: '\"Monsieur,\n'"}

 

There are tens of such lines. How should I format/encode the text so it is added and properly formatted in the Pipefy DB record?

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Best answer by Marcos Carvalho 20 July 2020, 21:31

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Hey Thiago, 

 

It seems you’re facing some problems with unescaped char.

 

With strings you need to insert backslashes to escape special chars. If you’re declaring this information in a variable, this escaping must be applied in the variable content. 

 

Here and example in Ruby where the string is declared in a var. 

 

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.pipefy.com/graphql")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["authorization"] = 'Bearer YOUR_TOKEN'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'

text = "\\\"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.\\\""

request.body = "{\"query\":\"mutation{ createCard( input: { pipe_id: 301315432 fields_attributes: [ {field_id: \\\"text\\\", field_value: #{text}} ] } ) { card { id title } } }\"}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

 

Our Developers page has a Code Console where you can insert your query or mutation and check the type escaping must be applied in your code. 

 

 

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