Request body is being escaped forming invalid json

[isbalashov]

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• Version:
• Operating System: CentOS 7
• Config File (if you have sensitive info, please remove it):
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• Sample Data:
• Steps to Reproduce:
  Following pipeline is used

input {
  http_poller {
    urls => {
      something => {
        method => post
        url => "https://link.de"
        headers => {
          "Content-Type" => "application/json"
        }
        body => '{
          "key":"value",
          "params":null,
          "id":1
        }'
     }
    }
    request_timeout => 60
    # Supports "cron", "every", "at" and "in" schedules by rufus scheduler
    schedule => { cron => "*/2 * * * * UTC"}
    codec => "json"
    # A hash of request metadata info (timing, response headers, etc.) will be sent here
    metadata_target => "http_poller_metadata"
  }
}

Body is being escaped forming invalid json

    "http_poller_metadata" => {
        "response_message" => "OK",
           "times_retried" => 0,
         "runtime_seconds" => 0.488045,
                    "host" => "bf766666fad2",
                    "code" => 200,
                    "name" => "something",
                 "request" => {
               "body" => "{\"key\":\"value\",\"params\":null,\"id\":1}",

[isbalashov]

Any progress so far?

[muralidharanvenkataraman]

Any updates ? Having similar issue with pulling logs from vmwareworkspace.

[enumanc]

Same issue here ! no solution since 2018 ?