Convert text to a number

At a glance

The community member is trying to send a JSON payload with a string value for the "tags" field, but the API expects an integer. They get an error saying the value cannot be deserialized as an integer. The community member tries to convert the string to an integer using parseInt(), but that doesn't work because the API doesn't support functions. After some discussion in the comments, another community member suggests the issue is with the template string, and the community member is able to resolve the issue.

RRichard

Hey everyone, I've got this JSON in a resource using POST:

{
"currency": "USD",
"filtering": {
"destination": "55",
"tags": ["$system.search.experience"]
},
"pagination": {
"start": 1,
"count": 20
}
}

But get this error back from an API:

{
"ok": false,
"data": "Cannot deserialize value of type java.lang.Integer from String "$system.search.experience": not a valid java.lang.Integer value\n at [Source: REDACTED .........

So sounds like I need it to be an integer when it's a string. After multiple hours I cannot seem to get the right JSON to convert it into a number that the API will recognise

If I replace the system.search variable with a static number it works fine.

When I try {
currency: "USD",
filtering: {
destination: "55",
tags: [parseInt($system.search.experience)]
},
pagination: {
start: 1,
count: 20
}
}

It says "Functions are not support"

I wonder what I can do to get this into a number format?

5 comments

OOleg Isonen

you seem to be sending "$system.search.experience" instead of the actual number, check your template string in the binding

OOleg Isonen

In such cases you need to provide full information if you need to get a better answer

RRichard

Thanks, when I put it in backticks I get this error

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