hey guys, I am trying to use Bamboo's rest api and I need to post an xml formatted payload to it. I have been able to do other gets and posts without a payload, but I am having trouble sending a payload that bamboo recognizes. In bamboos rest api documentation: (https://docs.atlassian.com/bamboo/REST/4.0/), it says that I need to send the following as the payload: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<label name="someLabel"/>

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here is my test code that I am trying to use: 

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $urlRequest = "http://bamboohost/rest/api/latest/result/projectname
+-planname-latest/label";
my $message = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"y
+es\"?><label name=\"testlabel\"/>";
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( POST => "$urlRequest");
$req->authorization_basic("username", "password");
$req->content($message);
my $result = $ua->request( $req );

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when I run this, I get the following error message: 
The server refused this request because the request entity is in a for
+mat not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.

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am I sending the xml payload properly? what am I missing here?


UPDATE: I was able to get it to work. This is the solution: 
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $urlRequest = "http://bamboohost/rest/api/latest/result/projectname
+-planname-latest/label";
my $message = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"y
+es\"?><label name=\"testlabel\"/>";
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( POST => "$urlRequest");
$req->authorization_basic("username", "password");
$req->content($message);
$req->content_type('application/xml');
my $result = $ua->request( $req );

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thanks,

In reply to Need help with sending xml formatted payload using HTTP::Request by drohr

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