The required parameter(s) are not present in the request

@alexindigo @felixge @DylanPiercey @JBtje

I am running Node v12.18.1 and axios v3.0.0 and form-data v2.5.1 (using 2.5.1 based on this issue here https://github.com/form-data/form-data/issues/462)

I am getting an error saying that the ‘The required parameter(s) client_id,client_secret,grant_type not present in the request’

The request I am executing is to get an access token from the Autodesk Developer API. The example for executing this request in their tutorial is as follows:

curl - i - X POST\ 'https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v1/authenticate'\ -
  H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'\ -
  d 'client_id=CLIENT_ID'\ -
  d 'client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET'\ -
  d 'grant_type=client_credentials'\ -
  d 'scope=code:all data:write data:read bucket:create bucket:delete'

You can see that this request is supposed to be a POST and it expects “x-www-form-urlencoded” content type. Executing the above curl request works fine and I get the proper response.

I expect, therefore, that the following code should process this request successfully as well. At least because it follows the same logic. However, this is not the case and I get the above error - where the “client_id”, “client_secret”, and “grant_type” are not there even though I append them… (Please note that the id and secret are hidden here.):

const form = new FormData();
    form.append("client_id", CLIENT_ID);
    form.append("client_secret", CLIENT_SECRET);
    form.append("grant_type", "client_credentials");
    form.append("scope", "code:all data:write data:read bucket:create bucket:delete");
    
    const resp = await axios.post("https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v1/authenticate", form, {
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
      }
    });

Logging the form object after appending the values looks like this:

{
  form: FormData {
    _overheadLength: 433,
    _valueLength: 118,
    _valuesToMeasure: [],
    writable: false,
    readable: true,
    dataSize: 0,
    maxDataSize: 2097152,
    pauseStreams: true,
    _released: false,
    _streams: [
      '----------------------------896880656847627813546978\r\n' +
        'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="client_id"\r\n' +
        '\r\n',
      '<CLIENT_ID>',
      [Function: bound ],
      '----------------------------896880656847627813546978\r\n' +
        'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="client_secret"\r\n' +
        '\r\n',
      '<CLIENT_SECRET>',
      [Function: bound ],
      '----------------------------896880656847627813546978\r\n' +
        'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="grant_type"\r\n' +
        '\r\n',
      'client_credentials',
      [Function: bound ],
      '----------------------------896880656847627813546978\r\n' +
        'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="scope"\r\n' +
        '\r\n',
      'all data:write data:read bucket:create bucket:delete',
      [Function: bound ]
    ],
    _currentStream: null,
    _insideLoop: false,
    _pendingNext: false,
    _boundary: '--------------------------896880656847627813546978'
  }
}

Full Error Message:

Error: Request failed with status code 400
    at createError (/Users/danielmaartens/drm/sovtech/palian/autodesk/tutorials/inventor-integration/node_modules/axios/lib/core/createError.js:16:15)
    at settle (/Users/danielmaartens/drm/sovtech/palian/autodesk/tutorials/inventor-integration/node_modules/axios/lib/core/settle.js:17:12)
    at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (/Users/danielmaartens/drm/sovtech/palian/autodesk/tutorials/inventor-integration/node_modules/axios/lib/adapters/http.js:236:11)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:327:22)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1221:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) {
  config: {
    url: 'https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v1/authenticate',
    method: 'post',
    data: FormData {
      _overheadLength: 433,
      _valueLength: 118,
      _valuesToMeasure: [],
      writable: false,
      readable: true,
      dataSize: 0,
      maxDataSize: 2097152,
      pauseStreams: true,
      _released: true,
      _streams: [],
      _currentStream: null,
      _insideLoop: false,
      _pendingNext: false,
      _boundary: '--------------------------231060729760745310281464',
      _events: [Object: null prototype],
      _eventsCount: 1
    },
    headers: {
      Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
      'User-Agent': 'axios/0.19.2'
    },
    transformRequest: [ [Function: transformRequest] ],
    transformResponse: [ [Function: transformResponse] ],
    timeout: 0,
    adapter: [Function: httpAdapter],
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    xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
    maxContentLength: -1,
    validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus]
  },
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      _host: 'developer.api.autodesk.com',
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      parser: null,
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      encrypted: true,
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    _header: 'POST /authentication/v1/authenticate HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
      'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*\r\n' +
      'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n' +
      'User-Agent: axios/0.19.2\r\n' +
      'Host: developer.api.autodesk.com\r\n' +
      'Connection: close\r\n' +
      'Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n' +
      '\r\n',
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  response: {
    status: 400,
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      date: 'Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:04:44 GMT',
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    config: {
      url: 'https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v1/authenticate',
      method: 'post',
      data: [FormData],
      headers: [Object],
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      transformResponse: [Array],
      timeout: 0,
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      socket: [TLSSocket],
      connection: [TLSSocket],
      _header: 'POST /authentication/v1/authenticate HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
        'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*\r\n' +
        'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n' +
        'User-Agent: axios/0.19.2\r\n' +
        'Host: developer.api.autodesk.com\r\n' +
        'Connection: close\r\n' +
        'Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n' +
        '\r\n',
      _onPendingData: [Function: noopPendingOutput],
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      path: '/authentication/v1/authenticate',
      _ended: true,
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    },
    data: {
      developerMessage: 'The required parameter(s) client_id,client_secret,grant_type not present in the request',
      errorCode: 'AUTH-008',
      'more info': 'https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/oauth/v2/developers_guide/error_handling/'
    }
  },
  isAxiosError: true,
  toJSON: [Function]
}

What am I missing here ? Do you have any clue as to what could be causing this behaviour ?

[hharb1]

I faced the same issue,

what you have to do is setting content type as application/x-www-form-urlencoded

and send your data as query string.

` const url = ‘https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v1/authenticate’;

const result = await lastValueFrom(this.httpService.post(url,
    queryString.stringify({

        client_id: '<your_client_id>',
        client_secret: '<your_client_secret>',
        grant_type: 'client_credentials',
        scope: 'data:write data:read bucket:create bucket:delete'

    }),
    {
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
        }
    }));`

NOTE: import * as queryString from ‘query-string’ --> make sure that the library is query-string and not query-string.

[dkoltovich]

I might be wrong but this is not an issue of the library. Authorization endpoint requires x-www-form-urlencoded content type in your case. But you are using form-data instead.

Even if you manually change the “Content-Type” request header to x-www-form-urlencoded, it wouldn’t work. Because if you use the “form-data” library the actual data encoded in form-data format (sections with boundaries in form-data against key-value pairs in urlencoded). As a result, the server can’t correctly decode your request and find the required fields.

I agree with @JBtje that this library will not be useful in your case.