cURL request - 400 Request couldn't be deserialized

brettg

I'm trying to use a cURL command to post to a form endpoint, but keep getting a "400 Request couldn't be deserialized" error. Please let me know if you see anything that's amiss with my test script below:

curl --user "APITest\API.User" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST --data '{"emailAddress":"[email protected]"}' https://secure.p04.eloqua.com/API/REST/2.0/data/form/18

== Info: upload completely sent off: 856 out of 856 bytes

<= Recv SSL data, 5 bytes (0x5)

0000: .....

<= Recv header, 31 bytes (0x1f)

0000: HTTP/1.1 403 Permission Error

Lou Patrick

For the 403 error, see the Authentication section of the Sending API requests using cURL tutorial for more details on how to authenticate.

For the 400 error, take a look at the cURL request formatting page for syntax guidelines for the three most commonly used command line tools.

brettg

Thanks for the reply. I know that cURL request formatting page well, but still can't figure out why I'm getting errors when I test in Postman. One thing I'm doing that's different from the example is attempting to post to an Eloqua form, rather than directly to a contact.

Lou Patrick

Here is the example of how to form the request to submit form data via API from our endpoint docs:

Content-Type: application/json {<br/>  "<span class="hljs-attribute">type</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"FormData"</span></span>,<br/>  "<span class="hljs-attribute">fieldValues</span>": <span class="hljs-value">[<br/>  {<br/>      "<span class="hljs-attribute">type</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"FieldValue"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">id</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"1"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">name</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"firstName"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">value</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"John"</span><br/>  </span>},<br/>  {<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">type</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"FieldValue"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">id</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"2"</span></span>,<br/> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span> "<span class="hljs-attribute">name</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"lastName"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">value</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"www.oracle.com"</span><br/>  </span>},<br/>  {<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">type</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"FieldValue"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">id</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"3"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">name</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"emailAddress"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">value</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"<div>"</span><br/>  </span>},<br/>  {<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">type</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"FieldValue"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">id</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"4"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">name</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"optInDate"</span></span>,<br/>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; background-color: #f6f6f6;">    </span>"<span class="hljs-attribute">value</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string" style="color: #880000;">"abc"</span><br/>   </span>}<br/>  ]<br/></span>}POST /api/REST/2.0/data/form/21<br/>