How can I add raw data body to an axios request?

How about using direct axios API?

axios({
  method: 'post',
  url: baseUrl + 'applications/' + appName + '/dataexport/plantypes' + plan,
  headers: {}, 
  data: {
    foo: 'bar', // This is the body part
  }
});

Source: axios api

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You can use postman to generate code. Look at this image. Follow step1 and step 2.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/tpaJH.png

If your endpoint just accepts data that have been sent with Body (in postman), You should send FormData.

var formdata = new FormData();
//add three variable to form
formdata.append("imdbid", "1234");
formdata.append("token", "d48a3c54948b4c4edd9207151ff1c7a3");
formdata.append("rate", "4");
      
let res = await axios.post("/api/save_rate", dataform);

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You can use the below for passing the raw text.

axios.post(
        baseUrl + 'applications/' + appName + '/dataexport/plantypes' + plan, 
        body, 
        {
            headers: { 
                'Authorization': 'Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
                'Content-Type' : 'text/plain' 
            }
        }
).then(response => {
    this.setState({data:response.data});
    console.log(this.state.data);
});

Just have your raw text within body or pass it directly within quotes as 'raw text to be sent' in place of body.

The signature of the axios post is axios.post(url[, data[, config]]), so the data is where you pass your request body.

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The key is to use "Content-Type": "text/plain" as mentioned by @MadhuBhat.

axios.post(path, code, { headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain" } }).then(response => {
    console.log(response);
});

A thing to note if you use .NET is that a raw string to a controller will return 415 Unsupported Media Type. To get around this you need to encapsulate the raw string in hyphens like this and send it as "Content-Type": "application/json":

axios.post(path, "\"" + code + "\"", { headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" } }).then(response => {
    console.log(response);
});

C# Controller:

[HttpPost]
public async Task<ActionResult<string>> Post([FromBody] string code)
{
    return Ok(code);
}

https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2017/sep/14/accepting-raw-request-body-content-in-aspnet-core-api-controllers

You can also make a POST with query params if that helps:

.post(`/mails/users/sendVerificationMail`, null, { params: {
  mail,
  firstname
}})
.then(response => response.status)
.catch(err => console.warn(err));

This will POST an empty body with the two query params:

POST http://localhost:8000/api/mails/users/sendVerificationMail?mail=lol%40lol.com&firstname=myFirstName

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53501339/3850405

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Here is my solution:

axios({
  method: "POST",
  url: "https://URL.com/api/services/fetchQuizList",
  headers: {
    "x-access-key": data,
    "x-access-token": token,
  },
  data: {
    quiz_name: quizname,
  },
})
.then(res => {
  console.log("res", res.data.message);
})
.catch(err => {
  console.log("error in request", err);
});

This should help

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You can pass the params like so

await axios.post(URL, {
  key:value //Second param will be your body
},
{
headers: {
  Authorization: ``,
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

this makes it easier to test/mock in Jest as well

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I got same problem. So I looked into the axios document. I found it. you can do it like this. this is easiest way. and super simple.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios#using-applicationx-www-form-urlencoded-format

var params = new URLSearchParams();
params.append('param1', 'value1');
params.append('param2', 'value2');
axios.post('/foo', params);

You can use .then,.catch.

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For sending form data in the body, you can just format the data in url params like this 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=12345&client_secret=678910' and attached it to data in the config for axios.

axios.request({
    method: 'post',
    url: 'http://www.example.com/',
    data: 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=12345&client_secret=678910',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    },
})

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axios({
  method: 'post',     //put
  url: url,
  headers: {'Authorization': 'Bearer'+token}, 
  data: {
     firstName: 'Keshav', // This is the body part
     lastName: 'Gera'
  }
});

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There many methods to send raw data with a post request. I personally like this one.

    const url = "your url"
    const data = {key: value}
    const headers = {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
    axios.post(url, data, headers)

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The only solution I found that would work is the transformRequest property which allows you to override the extra data prep axios does before sending off the request.

    axios.request({
        method: 'post',
        url: 'http://foo.bar/',
        data: {},
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        },
        transformRequest: [(data, header) => {
            data = 'grant_type=client_credentials'
            return data
        }]
    })

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This worked fine for me when trying to send authentication credential in body in raw json format.

let credentials = {
  username: "your-username",
  password: "your-password",
};
axios
.get(url, { data: credentials })
.then((res) => {
  console.log(res.data);
})

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