Request body is being escaped forming invalid json

[isbalashov]

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• Version:
• Operating System: CentOS 7
• Config File (if you have sensitive info, please remove it): default
• Sample Data:
• Steps to Reproduce: Following pipeline is used

  input {
  http_poller {
  urls => {
    something => {
      method => post
      url => "https://link.de"
      headers => {
        "Content-Type" => "application/json"
      }
      body => '{
        "key":"value",
        "params":null,
        "id":1
      }'
   }
  }
  request_timeout => 60
  # Supports "cron", "every", "at" and "in" schedules by rufus scheduler
  schedule => { cron => "*/2 * * * * UTC"}
  codec => "json"
  # A hash of request metadata info (timing, response headers, etc.) will be sent here
  metadata_target => "http_poller_metadata"
  }
  }

  Body is being escaped forming invalid json

    "http_poller_metadata" => {
        "response_message" => "OK",
           "times_retried" => 0,
         "runtime_seconds" => 0.488045,
                    "host" => "bf766666fad2",
                    "code" => 200,
                    "name" => "something",
                 "request" => {
               "body" => "{\"key\":\"value\",\"params\":null,\"id\":1}",

[isbalashov]

Any progress so far?

[muralidharanvenkataraman]

Any updates ? Having similar issue with pulling logs from vmwareworkspace.

[enumanc]

Same issue here ! no solution since 2018 ?