Webhook triggered automations question

[Marko_Petrovic]

I started using Coda API/Webhooks recently so I am kinda new to this.

I understand that if you send a key:value pair JSON format to automation listening to webhook (for example { “name”: “Jhon”, “surname”: “Smtih”} you can than reference that data in Step1 results and do with it what you need to do.

But is it possible for Webhook to receive array of objects ( [{}, {}, {}] ) and then use .forEach on Step1 result to loop over them and do what you need or Webhook is limited to only 1 object?

I already tried that but was getting some errors, so not sure if its a problem with structure or you just have to send a “single” object to Webhook only

[Agile_Dynamics]

yes you can.

if you send properly formed JSON containing an array.
but the array must not be the top element.

eg

{“myArray”:[111,222,333]}

should be ok

max

[Marko_Petrovic]

Hey @Agile_Dynamics , thanks for quick answer.
I missed that trick, thanks! I thought endpoint will be able to receive array of objects “natively”

I was getting info from other service in this format and it wouldn’t go

[
{ id: ‘10’, ident: ‘Codatest’, price: ‘91’ }
{ id: ‘10’, ident: ‘Codatest’, price: ‘91’ }
{ id: ‘10’, ident: ‘Codatest’, price: ‘91’ }
]

So the trick is to “wrap-it” up with key to contains array, that works!

{ “Data” :
[
{ id: ‘10’, ident: ‘Codatest’, price: ‘91’ }
{ id: ‘10’, ident: ‘Codatest’, price: ‘91’ }
{ id: ‘10’, ident: ‘Codatest’, price: ‘91’ }
]
}

Now only to figure out how to make rows of that nested array