An easy-to-make, hard-to-trace mistake with Bulk Import API payloads
Does this look like good multipart/form-data for the Marketo REST API Bulk Import endpoint?
It does, right? Here it is with my text editor (EditPlus) set to show all whitespace, so you can see the CRLFs (represented as ¶) in the right places:
And yet the response from Marketo is:
{
"requestId": "a571#1831bf14ce3",
"success": false,
"errors": [
{
"code": "1006",
"message": "Header field 'email' not found"
}
]
}
Strange, eh? The header email is the all-important system field Email Address, that’s definitely its REST API name. In fact, this particular endpoint is lax about case: you can even send EmAiL and it’ll work... at least usually. So what’s different here?
The direct cause
Now, I’ve been deliberately using text editor screenshots to keep you guessing. I was flummoxed myself until I checked the payload in my hex editor (Hex Editor Neo, highly recomme
