POSTMAN PUT request not updating values

Question

Assuming the position of the API tester of https://imgur.com/ , Im testing the PUT request to change account settings. I am following this api doc Link for above https://apidocs.imgur.com/#7bc88d39-d06d-4661-afff-38ea5b9a1d0a

Steps to check this

1. Add the relevant info as below, I am setting show_mature and newsletter_subscribed to true

2. Set the Access token 3. Click on send the response for this is 200 as shown below

4. Check if the details have updated as shown in the following screenshot

Expected: To have show_mature and newsletter_subscribed values set to true Actual: show_mature and newsletter_subscribed values are false

Would be really appreciated if someone could let me know why this is happening? Thanks

Answer 1

From the Imgur API docs...

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Answering here to provide a canonical answer in the imgur tag for this nonsense.

All the API examples in the documentation use some form of multipart/form-data request body payloads. Eg

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}");

var formdata = new FormData();

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: myHeaders,
  body: formdata,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://api.imgur.com/3/account/{{username}}/settings", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

and

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/token' \
--form 'refresh_token="{{refreshToken}}"' \
--form 'client_id="{{clientId}}"' \
--form 'client_secret="{{clientSecret}}"' \
--form 'grant_type="refresh_token"'

With the exception of any upload related endpoints, this is ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT. Passing data as multipart/form-data requires the API to handle that request content-type and guess what, the Imgur API does not.

What they do accept is application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

• In Postman that's the x-www-form-urlencoded option, not form-data
• In cURL that's the -d option, not --form
• In JavaScript that's URLSearchParams, not FormData