Unable to create component in the API

[Patrick Rutledge]

I thought I was following the API documentation correctly but I am unable to create a component via the statuspage.io API.  

Here is the payload I am sending via POST  https://api.statuspage.io/v1/pages/<mypageID>/components

{'component': {'name': 'placeholder', 'showcase': False, 'only_show_if_degraded': False, 'description': 'placeholder', 'status': 'operational'}}

I get back:

{'error': 'component is missing'}

What am I doing wrong here?

[Hana Kučerová · Accepted solution]

Hi @Patrick Rutledge ,

welcome to the community!

I think the main problem is you are using single quotes - The JSON standard requires double quotes.

Try to change it like this:

{
    "component": {
        "name": "placeholder",
        "showcase": false,
        "only_show_if_degraded": false,
        "description": "placeholder",
        "status": "operational"
    }
}

[Patrick Rutledge]

Thank you so much for your response.  Ok actually I think its something wrong with python.  I will try some different things.

[Patrick Rutledge]

Ok you lead me down the correct path I fixed it like this (in python):

response = requests.post(spioURL + url, headers=head, data=json.dumps(payload))