Fails to POST article

[davidmaceachern]

Steps to recreate

1. Install with Cargo, or clone main and compile locally with cargo build.
2. Export a key for a Dev.to account, an account that contains an article that was created on Dev.to Web version.
3. Navigate to a directory that contains 4 articles, 3 that have previously been uploaded to Dev.to and 1 new article.
4. Run devtogo.
5. Expect Dev.to to return a 422 error.

Dev.to error: 422 {"error":"article param must be a JSON object. You provided article as NilClass","status":422}

Investigation

Have traced it to the POST operation and have removed the send and await from the POST request.

        async move {
            let resp = client
                .post("https://dev.to/api/articles")
                .header("api-key", api_key.as_str())
                .json(&CreateArticleInput {
                    body_markdown: content,
                });
            println!("{:?}", resp);
            Ok(())
            }

Which when printing returns the following without the article param.

RequestBuilder { method: POST, url: "https://dev.to/api/articles", headers: {"api-key": "API_KEY", "content-type": "application/json"} }

It looks like the POST is being made with no value for the article which is why Dev.to throws a nilclass error which is what Ruby does when a value is nil or doesn't exist.

When printing the content that is to be converted by the reqwest json feature

        let content2 = content.clone();
        println!("{}", content2);

It outputs the content without an issue.

---
title: Hello, World!
published: false
tags: discuss, help
series: Hello series
canonical_url: https://example.com/blog/hello
---

Hello DEV, this is my first post

Ideas about what to try next

• Check whether content.clone() is an issue
• Check Reqwest and the json feature maybe they have issues?

[maelvls]

The message comes from here. Looks like the API of Forem might have changed; right now, the PUT /articles endpoint seems to expect something of the form:

{
  "article": {
    "title": "Hello, World!",
    "published": true,
    "body_markdown": "Hello DEV, this is my first post",
    "tags": ["discuss", "help"],
    "series": "Hello series",
    "canonical_url": "https://example.com/blog/hello"
  }
}

(source: API reference)

[softprops]

Thanks for the heads up! I'll take a look