From 022e808b143d6c4b70e18970a4f9c2907b4071a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MichaelDvP <github@mdvp.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:12:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow API post single value (with
 content-Type:application/json)

---
 src/web/WebAPIService.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/web/WebAPIService.cpp b/src/web/WebAPIService.cpp
index 89f23ad47..e17419825 100644
--- a/src/web/WebAPIService.cpp
+++ b/src/web/WebAPIService.cpp
@@ -38,12 +38,15 @@ void WebAPIService::webAPIService(AsyncWebServerRequest * request, JsonVariant j
     JsonDocument input_doc; // has no body JSON so create dummy as empty input object
     JsonObject   input;
     // if no body then treat it as a secure GET
-    if ((request->method() == HTTP_GET) || (!json.is<JsonObject>())) {
+    if (request->method() == HTTP_GET) {
         // HTTP GET
         input = input_doc.to<JsonObject>();
-    } else {
+    } else if (json.is<JsonObject>()) {
         // HTTP_POST
         input = json.as<JsonObject>(); // extract values from the json. these will be used as default values
+    } else {
+        input         = input_doc.to<JsonObject>();
+        input["data"] = json.as<std::string>();
     }
     parse(request, input);
 }