Cannot use searchParams on Zoho People API (HTTP Status 400)-CodePudding

(related to Giving HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request | Zoho API | searchParams | - following the official documentation at https://www.zoho.com/people/api/forms-api/search-record.html)

When sending a GET request via Postman to fetch leave-records for today by using the following (exported as curl)

curl --location -g \
  --request GET "https://people.zoho.eu/people/api/forms/leave/getRecords?searchParams={searchField:'To',searchOperator:'After',searchText:'02-Mar-2022'}|{searchField:'From', searchOperator: 'Before', searchText : '02-Mar-2022'}" \
  --header "Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken 1000.abcd1234.abcd1234"

as provided by the documentation, I receive only a HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request error response.

However, sending the same request without the searchParams, getting all leave records as a response, does work. So the URL region and the Auth to the API are correct in my case.

I authenticated as documented and received the token, using my clientId and clientSecret using the ZOHOPEOPLE.forms.ALL scope.

CodePudding user response：

The documentation does say GET here (at least at the time of writing) - but the request does actually work with a POST and sending the searchParams as form-data.

curl example:

curl --location --request POST 'https://people.zoho.eu/people/api/forms/leave/getRecords' \
--header 'Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken [...]' \
--form 'searchParams="{searchField: To, searchOperator: After, searchText: 10-Mar-2022}|{searchField: From, searchOperator: Before, searchText: 10-Mar-2022}"'

Also note that I could actually omit the quotes in the searchParams for better legibility with less escaping.