How to make Insight API calls containing multiline values?

Question

I am writing an application which makes many generated  API calls, to update Insight fields.
Many values I am updating are multiline strings, like this one:

{
"objectTypeId": 678,
"attributes": [
{
"objectTypeAttributeId": 2759,
"objectAttributeValues": [
{
 "value": "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Mailbox\address
C:\Windows
C:\
E:\
C:\ExchangeSetupLogs
C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\ritestkobe.local\SCRIPTS
C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol"
}
]
}
]
}

There are several other requests like this, containing many and more lines.

The problem is, a request containing a value with multiple lines is returning an internal server error.

Is there anyway to post multiline values to Insight objects through the API? If not, I would really appreciate any suggestions to solve this issue.

PD Sheehan · Accepted Answer

I suspect the \ in your string are as much a problem as the carriage returns

Try this

{
"objectTypeId": 678,
"attributes": [
{
"objectTypeAttributeId": 2759,
"objectAttributeValues": [
{
"value": "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V15\\Mailbox\\address
C:\\Windows
C:\\
E:\\
C:\\ExchangeSetupLogs
C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL\\sysvol\\ritestkobe.local\\SCRIPTS
C:\\Windows\\SYSVOL\\sysvol"
}
]
}
]
}

If that doesn't quite work, put the string all in one line and separate them with '\n'