gas-json-persist.gs

/*
@description GOOGLE APPS SCRIPT - Simple REST method POST example with payload and header parameters.
@author raphael.alex@gmail.com
@github aelkz
*/

// receives a HTML form element for parsing authentication data.
function getBasicAuth(htmlForm) {
    var userAndPassword = htmlForm.username+":"+htmlForm.password;
    // encode the string to base 64
    var x = Utilities.base64Encode(userAndPassword);
    return "Basic " + x;
}

function persist(htmlForm) {
    var url = "<REST POST URI>";
    var digestfull = getBasicAuth(htmlForm);

    var headers = {
      "Accept":"application/json",
      "contentType":"application/json",
      "Authorization":digestfull,
      "muteHttpExceptions":true
    };
    var payload = issue;
    var options = {
      "contentType":"application/json",
      "method":"POST",
      "headers":headers,
      "payload":payload
    };
    
    try {
        var resp = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url,options);
        if (resp.getResponseCode() != 200) {
          Browser.msgBox("Object creation failed.\\n\\nStack trace bellow:\\n"+resp.getResponseCode()+"\\n"+resp.getContentText());
          return false;
        }else {
          // convert response to JSON object
          return JSON.parse(resp.getContentText());
        }
    }catch(e) {
        console.log("houston we have a problem");
    }
}