Invalid request body format when trying to reply to user. chatbot app

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1

Zoom Apps Configuration

Ruby on Rails

Description

No matter what I try, I always get a BadRequest reply from the server when replying to a message from our chatbot. Never have managed to make it work.

Error?

RestClient::BadRequest (400 Bad Request)

and on Postman:

{
“code”: 7001,
“message”: “Invalid request body format.”,
“result”: false
}

Troubleshooting Routes

  • I added all the info to have a publishable URL, which is apparently needed to use production client id and secret.
  • I tested locally and on postman.

How To Reproduce

  1. Have a user ask something to the chatbot
  2. Upon request reception, access_token is properly obtained
  3. when sending reply, I get the bad request message. This is the method

def send_chat(chatbot_token)
url = ‘https://api.zoom.us/v2/im/chat/messages’

body = {
    'robot_jid': Lalip::Application.credentials.dig(:zoom_app,:bot_jid),
    'to_jid': params[:payload][:toJid],
    'account_id': params[:payload][:accountId],
    'content': {
      'head': {
        'text': 'Your rewritten feedback:'
      },
      'body': [{
        'type': 'message',
        'text': "you said #{params[:payload][:cmd]}"
      }]
    }
  }
  headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': "Bearer #{chatbot_token}"
  }
  response = RestClient.post url, body.to_json, headers
  if response.code == 200
    Rails.logger.debug(response.body)
  else
    Rails.logger.error("Error sending chat. #{response.body}")
  end
end
2

Welcome :smiley:

Thank you for posting in the Zoom Developer Forum, @anto1 ! To begin, can you confirm if you are encountering this issue only when making a request using Ruby? Have you attempted to make the request in a different programming language or using a tool like Postman? You should also know, Postman can also help with formatting issues as it generates code snippets for each entered request.

3

Hello,

The issue is the same with postman. I copied the error i got from postman o the request!

4

I just realized that on this page:

https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/chatbots/send-edit-and-delete-messages/

You mark the " user_jid" as required. But I do not know my user_jid.

Is this the issue?

5

@anto1 ,

That may an issue but I do not think it will resolve the Invalid request body format error. This error means you sent data in the incorrect format. I’d recommend using a tool like postman to test making a successful request. I see you used postman and were not successful, can you a share screenshot of how you set up the request?

6

Sure.

I send a message to the chatbot from zoom. The access token gets created on my server. I take that token and paste it on postman, and add the production jbot id, plus account id and to_jid. Attached three screenshots: the (successful) authorization request, followed by the headers of the send message request and the body + result of the request. Clicking the image will show you the three images

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7

Any updates? Thanks!

8

still waiting! what else can i try?

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Hi @anto1
I recently saw a similar issue in the forum, which was resolved by adding the “user_jid” field in the request body

Can you please give this a try and let me know?
Best,
Elisa

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10

It worked. Thanks Elisa. Please update the documentation!

Anto

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