Excel VBA - CURL - PUT - JSON - WinHttpRequest

I am trying to perform actions on a tool that supports API. I am using Excel VBA ("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1").

    https://{domain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/suspended_tickets/1234567890/recover.json
    
    domain - is the domain name of our company
    1234567890 - dummy suspended ticket number

In the help pages of Zendesk, I found the following information.

**Note:** During recovery, the API sets the requester to the authenticated agent who called the API, not the original requester. This prevents the ticket from being re-suspended after recovery. To preserve the original requester, GET the suspended ticket before recovery and grab the author value.

This clearly says that the author would change and I will have to use the GET method to grab the author value. I have successfully grabed the author value from the ticket information (json file). However, I am not aware, how to send PUT request using the following cURL:

    curl https://{domain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/suspended_tickets/1234567890/recover.json -X PUT -v -u {[email protected]/token}:{token} -d '{"author": {"id": null, "name": "A customer", "email": "[email protected]"}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
    
    domain - is the domain name of our company
    1234567890 - dummy suspended ticket number

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    Breaking the above cURL line so that it is readable
    curl https://{domain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/suspended_tickets/1234567890/recover.json
     -X PUT -v -u {[email protected]/token}:{token} -d
     '{"author": {"id": null, "name": "A customer", "email": "[email protected]"}}'
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

I have used the following code to fetch (GET) information from the json file:

    TargetURL = "https://www.mysite.co.uk/app/api/v1/test"
    Set HTTPReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
    HTTPReq.Option(4) = 13056
    HTTPReq.Open "PUT", TargetURL, False
    HTTPReq.SetCredentials "user", "password", 0
    HTTPReq.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
    HTTPReq.send ({"author": {"id":null,"name":"FIRSTNAME LASTNAME","email":"[email protected]"}}) 
    MsgBox (HTTPReq.responseText)

Seeking insightful help from professionals and experts.


Regards....

Hi, asipoy

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Ciao,
Holger

Sorry for that... I was not aware about it. Will surely ensure this is taken care of. Also the intention was to get some insights as soon as possible.

Not forgetting the post on OzGrid. As far as 'getting some insights as soon as possible' is concerned, please read the link in HaHoBes' reply. It explains why your getting insights as soon as possible can waste other peoples time...