Possible error when sending POST request with variables in body json

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Hi automation testers !

My problem

I am having troubles trying to make a sample web service project !
_I am trying to create a sample tests for REST JSON API https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/._

What I do with success

I have successfully done 1 request ‘Create album’ (POST to https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/albums)

with json body as:

{
  "userId": ${userId},
  "title" : "${title}"
}

and i’ve defined the two variables with default values in variables section.

<variables>
  <defaultValue>1</defaultValue>
  <description></description>
  <id>a7bcad4d-3d63-47a8-9e00-d6179f6f44da</id>
  <masked>false</masked>
  <name>userId</name>
 </variables>
 <variables>
  <defaultValue>'My sample album title'</defaultValue>
  <description></description>
  <id>716b919a-2c2c-4a95-a336-954a6b55237f</id>
  <masked>false</masked>
  <name>title</name>
 </variables>

And this request works well !

I get response 201 as expected

What i cannot do

I am trying to do request Create comment with same method ans POST tout /comments

I have body json as :

{
  "postId": ${postId},
  "name"  : "${name}",
  "email" : "${email}",
  "body"  : "${body}"
}

Variables as :

<variables>
  <defaultValue>1</defaultValue>
  <description></description>
  <id>dfcf3e15-1b48-4880-8217-9ad7b15dede3</id>
  <masked>false</masked>
  <name>postId</name>
 </variables>
 <variables>
  <defaultValue>'katalonsample@yopmail.com'</defaultValue>
  <description></description>
  <id>5cdbd2a6-93eb-4fa4-9c4f-bc7ccfdb7262</id>
  <masked>false</masked>
  <name>email</name>
</variables>
<variables>
  <defaultValue>'My sample comment'</defaultValue>
  <description></description>
  <id>c9d3171d-69d3-4245-a8c0-069baaff34d1</id>
  <masked>false</masked>
  <name>name</name>
 </variables>
 <variables>
  <defaultValue>'est natus enim nihil est dolore omnis voluptatem numquam\\net omnis occaecati \tquod ullam at\\nvoluptatem error expedita pariatur\\nnihil sint nostrum voluptatem reiciendis et'</defaultValue>
  <description></description>
  <id>3c403665-0a4c-4a7d-b413-d1f9bedb63e5</id>
  <masked>false</masked>
  <name>body</name>
 </variables>

And this request fail every single time with response :

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 	 in JSON at position 191
at JSON.parse (
<anonymous>)
at parse (/app/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:89:19)
at /app/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:121:18
at invokeCallback (/app/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:224:16)
at done (/app/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:213:7)
at IncomingMessage.onEnd (/app/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:273:7)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:189:13)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1103:12)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

I cannot figure out what’s wrong it is just the same request as the first one, i have checked json validators and everything …

Can you try it on your own ? Help me ? Any ideas ?

:question:

Thank you mates

Regards,
Adrian

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Your JSON does not validate:

https://jsonlint.com/?json={"postId":%20${postId},"name"%20%20:%20"${name}","email"%20:%20"${email}","body"%20%20:%20"${body}"}