{"id":25598,"date":"2020-11-17T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=25598"},"modified":"2020-11-18T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T11:54:33","slug":"providing-xml-as-an-input-to-your-custom-connector-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/providing-xml-as-an-input-to-your-custom-connector-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the projects we were working on was to integrate with a third-party API that accepted input in the XML format. This is a quick tip on how to pass XML in the action body when it expects JSON.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions1-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25600 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions1-1.png\" alt=\"Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions\" width=\"478\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions1-1.png 478w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions1-1-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you try to create a request and add XML string to the body, you receive the following error.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions2.png\" alt=\"Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions\" width=\"472\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions2.png 472w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions2-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workaround is to pass an empty string in the body when creating the action as shown below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions3.png\" alt=\"Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions\" width=\"471\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions3.png 471w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions3-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions3-200x140.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now once the action has been created, you are free to pass the XML content as the input and it will work just fine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions4.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25603 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions4.png\" alt=\"Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions\" width=\"643\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions4.png 643w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Providing-XML-as-an-input-to-your-Custom-Connector-Actions4-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/product\/productivity-apps\/add-manage-schedule-notifications-alerts-4-dynamics-365-crm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25643 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/A4D.jpg\" alt=\"Providing XML as an input to your Custom Connector Actions\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/A4D.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/A4D-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/A4D-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/A4D-660x165.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the projects we were working on was to integrate with a third-party API that accepted input in the XML format. 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