Hi @timkral , 

 

To send payloads with nested data structures and attachments, you'll need to set the Content-Type: multipart/form-data header, and send nested structures like so:

curl -X POST 'https://api2.frontapp.com/inboxes/inb_123/imported_messages' \

-H 'Authorization: Bearer API_TOKEN' \

-H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \

--form 'external_id=8gfh9qh7qsadcqw7gfqfh7@mail.example.com' \

--form 'created_at=1619656054' \

--form 'senderehandle]=external.sender@example.com' \

--form 'senderename]=External Sender' \

--form 'metadataais_inbound]=true' \

--form 'metadataais_archived]=false' \

--form 'tom]=front0@example.com' \

--form 'tom]=front1@example.com' \

--form 'body=MESSAGE_BODY' \

--form 'attachmentsm]=@/Users/me/Photos/cat.jpg' \

--form 'attachmentsm]=@/Users/me/Photos/dog.jpg'

I hope this is helpful - Please let me know if you have any further questions

--Molly

Hi @molly ,

Thanks for the response. I ended up figuring it out -- posting here in case others run into the same problem.

The issue is actually that the error message is confusing in that the term body has multiple meanings. There are actually two body elements -- the body field in the request payload and the body of the HTTP request itself. It finally dawned on me that I was interpreting the error message “body.sender: missing” to mean that I needed to embed a sender field within the body field like so:
{
  "body": {
        "body": "Sample Body",
        "sender": "Tim Kral"
  },
  "subject": "Sample Subject"
}

However, what the error is saying is that a required sender field is missing entirely from the HTTP body itself. So the correct payload needs to look like this:
{
  "body": "Sample Body",
  "subject": "Sample Subject",
  “sender”: {
    “name”: “Tim Kral”,
    “handle”: “timkral”
  }
}

That second payload got me past my issue.

-Tim

oh, this is great info, Tim! Thanks for the update!