List to JSON for sending SMS

[JDobbsy1987]

Hi,

I’m trying to add an SMS alert to a script using ClickSend however having an issue with getting powershell to output the required format in JSON i think, i get a response saying “The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request”

I suspect the issue is me not correctly formating the body of the message inline with their docs here – https://developers.clicksend.com/docs/rest/v3/#ClickSend-v3-API-SMS

 

PowerShell

$pwd = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f 'username', 'password'))) $body = @{ messages = @{ from = 'sender' to = '+447800000000' body = 'SMS message body' } } $json = ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $body $smsresponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{ Authorization = ("Basic {0}" -f $pwd) } -uri 'https://rest.clicksend.com/v3/sms/send' -Method Post -Body $json -ContentType 'application/json'

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$pwd = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f 'username', 'password')))       $body = @{ messages = @{ from = 'sender' to   = '+447800000000' body = 'SMS message body' } }     $json = ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $body     $smsresponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{ Authorization = ("Basic {0}" -f $pwd) } -uri 'https://rest.clicksend.com/v3/sms/send' -Method Post -Body $json -ContentType 'application/json'

 

Any help adjusting my script would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Jamie

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[Mike R. Participant Topics: 5 Replies: 253 Points: 1,007Rank: Community Hero]

I have zero experience with this API, but all the examples I saw in the docs show the message property as an array.  That is the only difference I see in your json.  You might want to try that and see if it is the issue.  Pretty simple to do, just wrap your messages value in an array subexpression @().

PowerShell

$body = @{ messages = @(@{ from = 'sender' to = '+447800000000' body = 'SMS message body' }) } $json = ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $body

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$body = @{ messages = @(@{ from = 'sender' to   = '+447800000000' body = 'SMS message body' }) } $json = ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $body

 

 

[JDobbsy1987 Participant Topics: 8 Replies: 12 Points: 120Rank: Participant]

Thank you so much, that worked!

I can’t believe how close my code was all this time, i actually swapped @{ for @( and played with different variations of that etc but never tried them together, although i now see whats happening and how that works so thank you very much.

 

– Jamie

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