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Is there any way to pass an array to a body field?

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
api, frontend

Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the body-field request shown in the screenshots and inspect how the console serializes array values; done means an array-valued body field is sent as an array rather than as a string.

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Description

question

For body fields that accept arrays, is there some secret to getting an array accepted? I tried this

screen shot 2017-09-14 at 11 51 34 am

but it was sent as a string:

screen shot 2017-09-14 at 11 50 00 am
Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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