Modify the request body based on parameter type, before it has been sent to the API

Questions & Answers
, , ,
1

Hello,
I’m creating a custom app with an action module, and in the communication tab in the module, I pass the parameters in body as the following:

"body": {
		"{{...}}": "{{omit(parameters, 'appId')}}"
	  }

The parameters are dynamically generated from a defined remote procedure, and vary depending on user selection, which means I don’t know the names of the parameters, and also I don’t know how many, and what is the type of each parameter (text, boolean, … etc). Here is the remote procedure definition:

{
	"url": "/services/app/Fields/GetAll",
	"method": "GET",
	"qs": {"listId": "{{parameters.listId}}"},
	"body": {},
	"headers": {},
	"response": {
		"iterate": "{{body.result.items}}",
		"output": {
			"label": "{{item.name}}",
			"value": "{{item.id}}",
			"type": "{{switch(item.dataType;0;'text';1;'number';2;'date';3;'boolean';7;'url';8;'email';9;'file';13;'number';'any')}}"
		}
	}
}

Now, when I run the scenario, the module sends the request body to my API as the following:

{
    "1052046": "Test make integration 22",
    "1052051": true,
    "1052052": "blue",
    "1052067": "zambia",
}

I need to detect the type of the parameter, here in my example is “1052067”: “zambia”, and then change the request payload to be as the following:

{
    "1052046": "Test make integration 22",
    "1052051": true,
    "1052052": "blue",
    "1052067": [
        {
            "_id": null,
            "label": "zambia"
        }
    ],
}

Would you please help, any suggestion to achieve this?
Thank you.