Recipe Body

There are a variety of ways to define the body of your request. Slumber supports structured bodies for a fixed set of known content types (see table below).

In addition, you can pass any Template to render any text or binary data. In this case, you'll probably want to explicitly set the Content-Type header to tell the server what kind of data you're sending. This may not be necessary though, depending on the server implementation.

Body Types

The following content types have first-class support. Slumber will automatically set the Content-Type header to the specified value, but you can override this simply by providing your own value for the header.

Variant	Type	`Content-Type`	Description
`!json`	Any	`application/json`	Structured JSON body; all strings are treated as templates
`!form_urlencoded`	`mapping[string, Template]`	`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`	URL-encoded form data; see here for more
`!form_multipart`	`mapping[string, Template]`	`multipart/form-data`	Binary form data; see here for more

Examples

chains:
  image:
    source: !file
      path: ./fish.png

requests:
  text_body: !request
    method: POST
    url: "{{host}}/fishes/{{fish_id}}/name"
    headers:
      Content-Type: text/plain
    body: Alfonso

  binary_body: !request
    method: POST
    url: "{{host}}/fishes/{{fish_id}}/image"
    headers:
      Content-Type: image/jpg
    body: "{{chains.fish_image}}"

  json_body: !request
    method: POST
    url: "{{host}}/fishes/{{fish_id}}"
    # Content-Type header will be set automatically based on the body type
    body: !json { "name": "Alfonso" }

  urlencoded_body: !request
    method: POST
    url: "{{host}}/fishes/{{fish_id}}"
    # Content-Type header will be set automatically based on the body type
    body: !form_urlencoded
      name: Alfonso

  multipart_body: !request
    method: POST
    url: "{{host}}/fishes/{{fish_id}}"
    # Content-Type header will be set automatically based on the body type
    body: !form_multipart
      name: Alfonso
      image: "{{chains.fish_image}}"