C to Delphi pascal

[Randall Carpenter 1]

I am working on creating a API client using Delphi pascal.  I have been unable to get it accept my POST request.  I continue to get a 400 Bad Request error.

The owners of the API server have indicated the C code shown below properly works.  

 

Unfortunately I am not a C programmer.  Would someone be willing to translate the following C code to Delphi pascal.  I would tremendously appreciate it.  

 

CURL *hnd = curl_easy_init();

curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://demo.checkbook.io/v3/check/digital");

struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "accept: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "content-type: application/json");
headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Authorization: XXXXX");
curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);

curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\"recipient\":\"testing@checkbook.io\",\"name\":\"Widgets Inc.\",\"amount\":5,\"description\":\"Test Payment\"}");

CURLcode ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

 

Thank you,

Randall H. Carpenter

[David Heffernan 2300]

You don't need to be a C programmer to translate this. You just need to understand the basics of curl. Do you have a Delphi curl library to hand?

[Randall Carpenter 1]

I do not have a curl library.  I have never used curl before.  I (along with one other developer) have written other API clients but have never encountered this.  

[David Heffernan 2300]

How are you expecting anybody to translate this without there being an agreed curl library. Do you know what curl is? 

[Dave Nottage 493]

6 hours ago, Randall Carpenter said:

I am working on creating a API client using Delphi pascal.  I have been unable to get it accept my POST request. 

Posting the Delphi code that you are using might be helpful

[Virgo 16]

12 hours ago, David Heffernan said:

You don't need to be a C programmer to translate this. You just need to understand the basics of curl. Do you have a Delphi curl library to hand?

You do not need event that. The code is completely obvious even without knowing curl. http request is sent with three additional headers set: accept, content-type and Authorization. And json is the request body. without seeing problem Delphi code, it is hard to know, what is done wrong in Delphi.

[Virgo 16]

Sample for doing same thing with Synapse THTTPSend:
 

procedure TestPost;
var
  H: THTTPSend;
  S: UTF8String;
  Res: Boolean;
begin
  H := THTTPSend.Create;
  try
    S := '{"recipient":"testing@checkbook.io","name":"Widgets Inc.","amount":5,"description":"Test Payment"}';
    H.MimeType := 'application/json'; //synapse has separate propery for content-type header
    H.Headers.Add('accept: application/json');
    H.Headers.Add('Authorization: XXXXX');
    H.Document.Write(S[1], Length(S)); 
    Res := H.HTTPMethod('POST', 'https://demo.checkbook.io/v3/check/digital');
    if Res then
    begin
      SetLength(S, H.Document.Size);
      if H.Document.Size > 0 then
        H.Document.Read(S[1], H.Document.Size);
      ShowMessage(format('%d: %s', [H.ResultCode, S]));
    end
    else
      ShowMessage(H.Sock.LastErrorDesc);
  finally
    H.Free;
  end;
end;

ends with

400: {"error":"Invalid authorization header"}

 

Because sample XXXXX authorization header is not correct obviously....

[David Schwartz 415]

You don't need curl for this. RESTRequest and RESTResponse should be fine.

 

The example above is similar to what you'd need.

[Remy Lebeau 1260]

Seems to be a duplicate of

 

[Virgo 16]

Indeed. And it is quite likely, that actual problem is invalid JSON. Besides strings with quotes in them additional possible problem is, if decimal separator is not dot.