Fetch API stringify

[zbot473]

• Insomnia Version: 6.6.2
• Operating System: macOS

Details

[Bug]

The generated fetch snippet is outputted as an object. The fetch API only accepts stringified values, at least with the "application/json" content type. This switch results in HTTP endpoints being passed [Object object], instead of the actual body.

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[jawahars16]

Can you elaborate a little bit? Because I am able to generate a proper fetch code with actual JSON body.

[gschier]

I think what they are saying is that you are not allowed to set body: to a JS object. It will try to cast it to a string and send [Object object] instead.

These are the only acceptable types for the body: attribute:

via https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch

[gschier]

Insomnia uses httpsnippet to generate code snippets and it looks like there is already an open PR to fix this Kong/httpsnippet#145

[zbot473]

I think what they are saying is that you are not allowed to set body: to a JS object. It will try to cast it to a string and send [Object object] instead.

These are the only acceptable types for the body: attribute:

via https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch

Exactly what I meant

[zbot473]

Their PR is erroring out though. I'm not sure why.

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[develohpanda]

Has been fixed by Kong/httpsnippet#179 - cc: @jgiovaresco

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