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emretezisci
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

"error_description": "missing required field \"grant_type\""

I am trying to get a sl access token with my refresh token but it gives this error. Any idea why?  Input:     { "body": { "grant_type": "", "refresh_token": "<token>" }, "contentType": "applicat...
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emretezisci
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Thanks, for your prompt responses. I am making these requests from another integration that doesn't support application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

Do you know any other way to make it work with an application/json encoding?

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

To be honest, I haven't tried (haven't need), but you may do it by "hands". Shouldn't be so difficult to join names and value using = and & (no additional encoding steps needed in particular - all value are URL compatible already). Right? 🙂

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