Hi,
I am trying to query Quest Foglight REST API with below code (POST Method) but getting error:

malformed JSON string, neither tag, array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "Not a SCALAR referen...")

FYI: My PERL code is already connected to FogLight REST API and collected the auth-token value in $mytoken.
Appreciate, if someone cold help me to understand cause of the error and how to resolve it.

FYI: I tried decoding the $body in JSON format but didn't helped.

my $jbody = JSON->new->utf8->decode($body);

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Thanks in advance !! Regards, Ravi 
$header ={ 
    Auth-Token => $mytoken,
    Content-Type => "application/json",
    Accept => "application/json"
};
$body ='{ 
            "includes" :  [ { 
            "ids" : ["fbb7c736-852f-4158-aae3-1f97bc755cec"], 
            "observationName" : "sql_batches" } ], 
            "startTime" : 1602043200000, 
            "endTime" : 1602129599000, 
            "granularity" : 86400000, 
            "numberOfValue" : 1, 
            "retrievalType" : "RAW"
            }';

$client->POST('/topology/batchQuery',$body,$header);

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