The docs for webhooks is distributed between Particle Guides, Particle Reference | Cloud, and Particle Reference | Firmware so I may have missed something important. I am wondering what is the best way to send several data parameters in one webhook event. Looking at the Particle.publish() call, it…

Yes, you can send multiple data values in a Particle publish if you format the event data as JSON. Say you want to send 2 integers, a and b, and a string c. You might send up something like this in the event data. {"a":12,"b":34,"c":"testing"} Then, instead of using {{PARTICLE_EVENT_VALUE}} you ca…

Thanks, I’ll look at your tutorial.

Sorry there isn’t an easier to use API, but the [SparkJson] ( https://github.com/menan/SparkJson ) library is pretty good. It’s in the community libraries if you’re using Particle Build (web IDE). Though a lot of people just brute-force it using sprintf as well.

I haven’t mastered your tutorial yet, but one question: once I’ve formatted a JSON string and passed it to the publish() method as the data parameter, why bother to set up the individual parameters in the web hook? Isn’t it just as easy to receive the JSON string as a single parameter (“data”) in …

If you have the receiving server in your own hands, that’s possible and you are free to choose any format you like, but webhooks are mainly targeted at 3rd party servers and these don’t like arbitrary formats but prefere standards. And JSON is very flexible and hence widely adopted on these 3rd par…

At this time, you need to break out the individual fields you want to pass in whatever thing you want to pass them in, such as query parameters, JSON post data, or form post data. Like the {{a}} values in my example above. It’s more flexible, and a little more complicated, and, unfortunately, it’s …

Thanks ScruffR and rickkas7 – that clarifies the motivation when to break out the parameters. In our case, we do possess the receiving server, but knowing how to set the parameters is very valuable for other uses. Regards, -SB

I am new to web hooks. I want to send a “block” of records at each publish that hook to Grovestreams. My data is like this Date : String, Time : String, Event ID : uint8, TagID : unit16, Vehicle ID: uint16, Param1 : uint8, Param2 : unit8 I may have anywhere from 1 to 20 records per publish. Do I…

[image] orbitcoms: Also, I am using Dev IDE on my desktop and cannot get the "Add to Project" option when I attempt to "USE" the library, I only get option to "create new project", anyone know how to get the "Add to project" option? I guess this applies here too [image] No op…

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