Coldfusion CFHTTP PATCH Method

Question

I am doing a basic PATCH method call to an API using cfhttp and Coldfusion 2021. No matter what I try to do, it changes the content-type on the call to x-www-form-urlencoded when it is set to application/json using cfhttpparam. I tried adding this line from another post, no effect.

<cfhttpparam type="CGI" encoded="false" name="Content_Type" value="application/json; charset=utf-8"<

I tried changing the method to POST and using this line from another post.

<cfhttpparam type="header" name="X-HTTP-Method-Override" value="PATCH">

No matter what it still sends as the wrong content-type and the api disregards it as a result and just sends back a 200 OK that it received a call, but does no update to the data due to the content-type.

I have also tried sending the body as a variable and as a param. Same result.

Does anyone know why it is switching the content-types or how to correct it?

Here is my code for the call to the API.

<cfhttp url="#loc.URLInsertID#"
        method="PATCH"
        timeout="999"
        result="loc.AssetPandaGetObjectDataUpdate">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept" value="application/json" />
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Mimetype" value="application/json" />
        <!--- <cfhttpparam type="CGI" encoded="false" name="Content_Type" value="application/json; charset=utf-8"> --->
        <!--- <cfhttpparam type="header" name="X-HTTP-Method-Override" value="PATCH"> --->
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Authorization" value="#Bearer#">
        <!--- <cfhttpparam type="body" name="body" value="#SerializeJSON(loc.bodyElements)#"> --->
        #SerializeJSON(loc.bodyElements)#
</cfhttp>

James A Mohler James A Mohler · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-20T00:09:57

This is really a comment, but it is too long.

On this section of code

    <!--- <cfhttpparam type="body" name="body" value="#SerializeJSON(loc.bodyElements)#"> --->
    #SerializeJSON(loc.bodyElements)#

You most likely want to use the body approach. Try to get this to work on Postman first. Usually it is straight forward to replicate the request from there.

Coldfusion CFHTTP PATCH Method

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