HTTP Post

This page provides a comprehensive reference for http post available in the workflow automation actions catalog. These actions enable you to http post request operations.

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see HTTP actions.

Automatic request headers

All HTTP requests performed by Workflow Automation automatically include the following headers:

Header	Format
`X-Abuse-Info`	`Request sent by a New Relic WorkflowAutomation. {runId}` where `{runId}` is the workflow run ID
`User-Agent`	`NewRelic/WorkflowAutomation (region={region}; https://newrelic.com ; support@newrelic.com)` where `{region}` is the New Relic region

POST data to a server

Performs an HTTP POST call to send data to an API endpoint.

Importante

If you need to pass sensitive data to an input, for example an Api-Key header, you can use values stored via the secretsManagementCreateSecret NerdGraph mutation.

Example

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "key": "headers",
      "value": "{\"Api-Key\": \"${{ :secrets:NR_API_KEY }}\"}"
    }
  ]
}

Input	Type	Description
url	String	Required. The target URL for the request. The scheme must be included: `https://example.com`
urlParams	Map	Optional. The query parameters to append to the URL. Takes a stringified JSON object.
headers	Map	Optional. The headers to add to the request. Takes a stringified JSON object.
body	String	Optional. The request body.
selectors	List	Optional. The selectors to get only the specified parameters as output.

Output	Type	Description
responseBody	String	The body of the response.
statusCode	Int	The status code of the response.
success	Boolean	Status of the request.
errorMessage	String	Failure reason as message.

Workflow definition	Input	Output
`name: httpPostTest steps: - name: query type: action action: http.post version: 1 inputs: url: ${{ .workflowInputs.url }} urlParams: ${{ .workflowInputs.urlParams }} headers: ${{ .workflowInputs.headers }} body: ${{ .workflowInputs.body }} selectors: ${{ .workflowInputs.selectors }}`	`{ "inputs": [ { "key": "url", "value": "https://example.com" }, { "key": "headers", "value": "{\"Content-Type\":\"application/json\"}" }, { "key": "urlParams", "value": "{\"foo\": \"bar\"}" }, { "key": "body", "value": "{\"foo\": \"bar\"}" }, { "key": "selectors", "value": "[{\"name\": \"responseBody\", \"expression\": \".responseBody\"}, {\"name\": \"statusCode\", \"expression\": \".statusCode\"}]" } ] }`	`Success case: { "success": true "responseBody": "", "statusCode": 200 } Failure case: { "errorMessage": "An unexpected error failed to call http post endpoint.", "success": false }`

Workflow definition

Input

Output

name: httpPostTest

steps:
  - name: query
    type: action
    action: http.post
    version: 1
    inputs:
      url: ${{ .workflowInputs.url }}
      urlParams: ${{ .workflowInputs.urlParams }}
      headers: ${{ .workflowInputs.headers }}
      body: ${{ .workflowInputs.body }}
      selectors: ${{ .workflowInputs.selectors }}

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "key": "url",
      "value": "https://example.com"
    },
    {
      "key": "headers",
      "value": "{\"Content-Type\":\"application/json\"}"
    },
    {
      "key": "urlParams",
      "value": "{\"foo\": \"bar\"}"
    },
    {
      "key": "body",
      "value": "{\"foo\": \"bar\"}"
    },
    {
      "key": "selectors",
      "value": "[{\"name\": \"responseBody\", \"expression\": \".responseBody\"}, {\"name\": \"statusCode\", \"expression\": \".statusCode\"}]"
    }
  ]
}

Success case:
  {
    "success": true
    "responseBody": "",
    "statusCode": 200
  }

Failure case:
  {
    "errorMessage": "An unexpected error failed to call http post endpoint.",
    "success": false
  }

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Automatic request headers

POST data to a server

Importante

Prerequisites