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GaryElliott
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Submit Form API with Ruby on Rails - Response 204 but no content

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I'm having an issue with the submit form API (https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/forms/submit_form).

I'm getting a 204 response. But there is a message with 'No content'. The form is getting submissions but they are all 'No Contact Record'.

Here is the code from my controller:

payload = { email: params[:email],
            	firstname: params[:first_name],
            	lastname: params[:last_name],
            	venue: params[:venue],
            	product_type: params[:product_type],
            	hs_context: { hutk: cookies[:hubspotutk],
                          	  ipAddress: request.remote_ip,
                          	  pageUrl: request.url,
                          	  pageName: "EnquiryForm" } 
               }

	endpoint = "https://forms.hubspot.com/uploads/form/v2/#{ENV['hubspot_portal_id']}/#{ENV['hubspot_enquiry_form_GUID']}"

	begin
        uri = URI.parse(@endpoint)
        header = header = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
        http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
        http.use_ssl = true
	    http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
        request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri, header)
        request.body = payload.to_json
        response = http.request(request)
        response_output = "response #{response.body}"
    rescue => e
        response_output = "failed: #{e}"
    end

Here is the header and body of my request:

header:
  :content-type:
  - application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  accept-encoding:
  - gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3
  accept:
  - "*/*"
  user-agent:
  - Ruby
  connection:
  - close
  host:
  - forms.hubspot.com
  content-length:
  - '276'
  content-type:
  - application/x-www-form-urlencoded
body: '{"email":"test@test.com","firstname":"Test","lastname":"Test","venue":"testing","product_type":"test","hs_context":{"hutk":"d68c5983a0f224a8c87f113856466184","ipAddress":"127.0.0.1","pageUrl":"http://localhost:3000/enquiry","pageName":"EnquiryForm"}}'
body_stream: 
body_data:

I'm at a bit of a loss on what to change. Any suggestions?

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GaryElliott
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Submit Form API with Ruby on Rails - Response 204 but no content

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Solved it.

Turns out, the whole payload doesn't need to be JSON.

This is what worked:

hs_context = { hutk: cookies[:hubspotutk],
                              ipAddress: request.remote_ip,
                              pageUrl: request.url,
                              pageName: "EnquiryForm" 
                  }.to_json

 payload = URI.escape("email=#{params[:email]}&firstname=#{params[:first_name]}&lastname=#{params[:last_name]}&venue=#{params[:venue]}&product_type=#{params[:product_type]}&hs_context=#{hs_context}")

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GaryElliott
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Submit Form API with Ruby on Rails - Response 204 but no content

SOLVE

Solved it.

Turns out, the whole payload doesn't need to be JSON.

This is what worked:

hs_context = { hutk: cookies[:hubspotutk],
                              ipAddress: request.remote_ip,
                              pageUrl: request.url,
                              pageName: "EnquiryForm" 
                  }.to_json

 payload = URI.escape("email=#{params[:email]}&firstname=#{params[:first_name]}&lastname=#{params[:last_name]}&venue=#{params[:venue]}&product_type=#{params[:product_type]}&hs_context=#{hs_context}")
Derek_Gervais
HubSpot Alumni
HubSpot Alumni

Submit Form API with Ruby on Rails - Response 204 but no content

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Hi @GaryElliott,

Can you send me a link to the form you're referring to in HubSpot so that I can take a closer look? Also, I'm not particularly familiar with Ruby; are the form fields (email, firstname, etc.) being put into a JSON object? They should be URI encoded fields, since the endpoint doesn't accept JSON.

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GaryElliott
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Submit Form API with Ruby on Rails - Response 204 but no content

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Hi Derek,

I’m currently using a sandbox to test.

Here’s the form.

https://app.hubspot.com/forms-two/4152608/663a2fc2-8f53-457e-a622-9d05aa1911e7/submissions

And yes, all values in the payload are URI encoded. This includes form values as well as those set in hs_context

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