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In my laravel 5.7 app, I have a controller with the following method that sends a post request using GuzzleHttpClient to my lumen api.

public function insert(Request $request)
 
 $domain = Config::get('url.gcr_api'); // gcr_api is defined in app/config/url.php
 $url = $domain . "/api/v1/campaign/insert"; 

 $campaign_name = $request->input('campaign_name');
 $campaign_provider = $request->input('campaign_provider');

 $client = new Client;
 $response = $client->request('POST', $url , [
 'headers' => [
 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' => csrf_token(),
 ],
 'form_params' => [
 'name' => $campaign_name, 
 'bank_id' => $campaign_provider,
 ]
 ]
 );

 $data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
 return $data;

 
}

Here is the code for the lumen api that is called by the above method.

public function insert(Request $request) 
 try 
 $campaign_name = $request->input('campaign_name');
 $campaign_provider = $request->input('campaign_provider');

 $data = array('name' => $campaign_name, 'bank_id' => $campaign_provider);
 DB::table('campaign')->insert($data); 

 $response = array(
 'status' => 'success',
 'message' => 'Campaign created successfully',
 ); 
 return response()->json($response);
 
 catch(Exception $e) 
 // When query fails. 
 $response = array(
 'status' => 'failed',
 'message' => 'Failed to create campaign',
 );

 return response()->json($response);
 
 

I am getting this error everytime the insert method of my laravel app controller is called:

GuzzleHttp Exception ServerException (500) Server error: POST
http://localhost:8000/api/v1/campaign/insert resulted in a 500
Internal Server Error response:

I think the error has something to do with my lumen api not able to fetch form_params data, so I commented out this block of code in my lumen api code and error disappears:

/*$campaign_name = $request->input('campaign_name');
 $campaign_provider = $request->input('campaign_provider');

 $data = array('name' => $campaign_name, 'bank_id' => $campaign_provider);
 DB::table('campaign')->insert($data); */

But I need to fetch the form_params data in my lumen api, how do I do that?

Your assumption is partially correct, it can access the form_params, but the form_params you try to get differ from the actual parameters:

In order to pass the paramters you use the following array:

'form_params' => [
 'name' => $campaign_name, 
 'bank_id' => $campaign_provider,
]

This array will set the value to $campaign_name with the key 'name', and $campaign_provider to bank_id. Nothing wrong with this code so far.

However in your API you do the following:

$campaign_name = $request->input('campaign_name');
$campaign_provider = $request->input('campaign_provider');

However no key campaign_name or campaign_provider is present, since these have been changed to name and bank_id. So if you change this to the following it should work:

$campaign_name = $request->input('name');
$campaign_provider = $request->input('bank_id');