This API does not support parsing form-encoded input

Question

I tried to submit data to an endpoint but it said the data size was too large, so I changed the method to POST and received the error:

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Answer 1

Not sure if your problem is related, but I received the "This API does not support parsing form-encoded input." error when I was attempting to use curl to send a POST message like this:

curl -X POST -d '{"name": "Foo"}' http://foo.appspot.com/_ah/api/foo/1/endpoint

The problem was that I was not setting the content type. curl POSTs with Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded if it's not specified on the command line. Google cloud endpoints don't accept this content type.

When I changed the curl invocation to include the content type, it worked:

curl -X POST -d '{"name": "Foo"}' --header "Content-Type: application/json" http://foo.appspot.com/_ah/api/foo/1/endpoint