Searching TrueVault always returns INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY - truevault

Question

Dead simple search query only using required fields:
{ schema_id: 'xxxxxxxx-8b39-427a-8fb8-c764957fd9c6',
filter: { last_name: { type: 'not', value: 'Smith' } } }
POSTing to https://api.truevault.com/v1/vaults/xxxxxxxx-15e3-442e-aa6f-xxxxxxxx/search
When POSTing, the POST call options look like this:
{
data: { search_option: 'xxxx base64 encoded JSON.stringify of the above xxxxxxx' },
headers: { Authorization: 'Basic xxx base64 encoded API KEY xxx' }
}
Authorization is working. Result:
{ Error: failed [400] { "error": { "code":
"SEARCH.INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY", "message": "Invalid
search_option.", "type": "invalid_request_error" },
"result": "error", "transaction_id":
"9ad83046-1906-406c-87ab-963b904857c4" }
curl command for the same search query:
curl -d "{ search_option: 'eyJzY2hlbWFfaWQiOiJlOWVmYmE0NC04YjMwLTQyN2EtOGZiOC1jNzY0OTU3ZmMwZGUiLCJmaWx0ZXIiOnsibGFzdF9uYW1lIjp7InR5cGUiOiJ3aWxkY2FyZCIsInZhbHVlIjoiRnJhbnptZWllcioifX19' }"
-X POST
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=="
https://api.truevault.com/v1/vaults/xxxxxxxx-15e3-442e-aa6f-4xxxxxxxxxx/search
Same error:
{
"error": {
"code": "SEARCH.INVALID_SEARCH_QUERY",
"message": "Invalid search_option.",
"type": "invalid_request_error"
},
"result": "error",
"transaction_id": "b5a51185-264f-4765-a1b8-6ae9e491aa39"
}

Answer 1

Alex,
I don't think your curl command is formatted the way TrueVault expects. This may also be your problem in your http library. The curl command I'd expect is:
curl https://api.truevault.com/v1/vaults/xyz/search \
-XPOST \
-H "Content..."
-H "Auth..."
-d "search_option=eyJ...."
That is, the data payload is form-encoded (param1=value1&param2=value2) not JSON.
It looks like the docs for search were missing a sample curl, but you can see a similar curl for document create listed in the docs.

Answer 2

I ran into I believe the same issue in my juery ajax request. For me, it was that I was sending my request with header{'Content-Type':'application/json'}, but it needs to be form-data.
Working example:
var api_url = 'https://api.truevault.com/v1/vaults/' + vault_id + '/search';
var data = {
'schema_id' : schema_id,
'page' : 1,
'per_page' : 50,
'filter_type' : 'and',
'full_document' : false,
"sort": [
{
"SomeField":"asc"
}
],
'filter':{
'SomeField':{
'type':'eq',
'value': somevalue
}
}
};
data = btoa( JSON.stringify( data ) );
$.ajax({
type : 'POST',
url : api_url,
dataType : 'json',
processData : false,
headers : {
'Authorization':'Basic '+ btoa( auth_key+":" ),
},
mimeType : "multipart/form-data",
data : 'search_option='+ data,
error: function( response ) {
//
},
success: function( response ) {
//
}
});