Form body should be URL encoded

[dinosimone]

HubSpot form API states the following:

"Please Note All parameters must be URL encoded before being passed through the API, including the hs_context parameter."

If it's not encoded and request contains URL unsafe characters, it silently fails to submit by creating empty fields.

[chadwilken]

In my testing this breaks the form submission. You just need to do JSON.generate on the context object to make it work

[cbisnett]

Since we've got ActiveSupport can we just call to_json() on opts[:body]? Would that solve this issue?

[chadwilken]

I don't think so because we don't want to json encode the entire body just the hs_context. You could sniff that out of the body and call that on that param.

[cbisnett]

@chadwilken I've never used Hubspot forms so I don't have any insight here, but do we really want to convert the context to JSON or is it just supposed to be url encoded?

[chadwilken]

It has to be JSON in the url according to the docs and in my testing. -- Edit: I removed your address and phone number

[cbisnett]

OK cool. I just wanted to make sure that converting it to JSON wasn't the wrong solution but proving the the correct results as a side-effect of conversion and URL encoding.

[dinosimone]

Looping back on this. I was already encoding context with to_json in my application before passing it to the form. The problem is not in the context but rather other parameters. For instance, if you have a form that contains an email field and you pass in an email such as "[email protected]" it will fail due to the plus sign. I suppose this could be properly encoded by the application making the API call, but it seemes more appropriate for the API to know how to handle this. This is why the documentation states this:

"Please Note All parameters must be URL encoded before being passed through the API, including
the hs_context parameter."