Laravel function return me just NULL - php

Question

I need to connect to an API to claim a voucher. At API doc I see:
POST /api/v1/vouchers/{voucherId}/claim
{
"Participant": {
"FirstName": "John",
"LastName": "James,
"Telephone": "08456 127 127",
"EmailAddress": "tim#asdasd.net",
"PostCode": "ASD 9HX",
"HouseNameNumber": "2",
"Street": "Bridge Road2",
"Locality": "LONDON",
"Town": "Aylesbury",
"County": "Bucks"
},
"ExperienceDate": "2017-10-01T00:00:00"
}
Based on this I write my function using Laravel framework:
public function testclaim()
{
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client;
$headers = ['Content-Type' => 'application/json'];
try {
$res = $client->post('https://api.example.com/api/v1/vouchers/244775_2-H8SC/claim', [
'headers'=>$headers,
'auth' => [
'JAMES-JJ', 'ajhsdajsdhaj32423'
],
'json' => [
'Participant' => [
"FirstName"=> "asdasd",
"LastName"=> "asdasd",
"Telephone"=> "08456 127 127",
"EmailAddress"=> "tim#asdasd.net",
"PostCode"=> "HP18 9HX",
"HouseNameNumber"=> "1",
"Street"=> "Bridge Road",
"Locality"=> "Ickford",
"Town"=> "Aylesbury",
"County"=> "Bucks"
],
'ExperienceDate' => '2017-11-01T00:00:00'
]
]);
$res = json_decode($res->getBody()->getContents(), true);
return response()->json(['data' => $res]);
//dd($res);
}
catch (GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException $e) {
$response = $e->getResponse();
$result = json_decode($response->getBody()->getContents());
return response()->json(['data' => $result]);
}
}
Now when I run this function I just get:
{"data":null}
ANybody see what is wrong in my code?
How to solve this issue?
I also try without header to send a request but again I get the same response from API.

Answer 1

You don't need getContents() if you want to convert the body to an Array.