Feature request: support sending a json body with http request

#39 In order to use this as a way to get any valuable info from the sprinklr api, it would need to support being able to send a json body. For example: request.AddParameter(@"application/json", "{\n\t\"sinceTime\":" + epochFromInMilliseconds + ",\n\t\"untilTime\":" + epochNowInMilliseconds + ",\n\t\"details\": {\n\t\t\"widgetType\": \"STREAM\"\n\t},\n\t\"messageFormatOptions\": \"strip_html,strip_url\",\n\t\"filters\": [\n\t\t{\n\t\t\t\"dimension\": \"TOPIC\",\n\t\t\t\"filterValues\": [\n\t\t\t\t\"" + definedTopic.Id + "\"\n\t\t\t]\n\t\t},\n\t\t{\n\t\t\t\"dimension\": \"MEDIA_SOURCE\",\n\t\t\t\"filterValues\": [\n\t\t\t\t\"REDDIT\",\n\t\t\t\t\"TWITTER\",\n\t\t\t\t\"FACEBOOK\"\n\t\t\t]\n\t\t}\n\t],\n\t\"metric\": \"MENTIONS\",\n\t\"start\": 0,\n\t\"rows\": 150\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);

I believe many people would find this useful. Sprinklr is the best enterprise tool for understanding what people are talking about across all public domain social platforms. This information is valuable for corporations, research, etc.

Please let me know if I can provide any more info. Thank you!

[marcusolsson]

Judging by the votes on the original post, this is important to many users. I’ll get started working on this!

@smarkm I think what you’re asking for is a bit different from what the original poster meant. To answer your question though: No, generic query parameter as variables is not supported. If you’d like to accomplish something like this you’d have to use dashboard variables, which is supported in both the path and query string fields.

[casieo]

Ok, so here’s an update on this. I’ve discussed this thread with the Grafana team, and I’ve decided to add support for POST requests. The reasoning is that the difference between GET and POST in this case is only semantic. There’s nothing stopping you from building a REST API that uses GET to create resources. Similarly, there are APIs that only uses POST for all operations, including reading data.

With that, I also decided to add the support for settings a request body back in there. Unfortunately, due to the browser limitation I mentioned earlier, GET requests don’t support a request body. You’ll get a warning that tells you the body is being ignored.

I’ve released v0.9.0, which introduces a brand new query editor. Since this is a pretty big change, I’ll hold off on publishing this for a bit to let people try it out first.

You can install it by running:

grafana-cli --pluginUrl=https://github.com/marcusolsson/grafana-json-datasource/releases/download/v0.9.0/marcusolsson-json-datasource-0.9.0.zip plugins install marcusolsson-json-datasource

Please read the CHANGELOG.md before installing it.

This is working beautifully! Thank you! Will also play with word cloud panel, etc.