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Failed to deserialize argument data.  \r\n \r\n PAD

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Posted on by zzz7 29
Hi,
 
I am calling up my PAD from Power Automate cloud, and I am passing in JSON. The JSON is valid when I run it on a validator.
 
The Power Automate cloud is throwing this error when trying to run my PAD:
    "code": "FlowArgumentError",
    "message": "Failed to deserialize argument data.  \r\n \r\n"
 
I had this working, and it broke four days ago.
 
I did recreate the PAD connection in my flow, and that did not work either.
 
Any ideas on what I should do? Is there more logging that I can get from PAD or do I have to remove all the line returns in the JSON?
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  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @zzz7 

     

    Would it be possible to show the json structure?

     

    Also could you try to pass JSON as string and convert to custom object in power automate desktop?

     

  • zzz7 Profile Picture
    zzz7 29 on at

    Here is the JSON without the data in it.

    new5.zip
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    zzz7 29 on at

    The data is coming from my Dataverse database.

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    zzz7 29 on at

    I got it working. I had to limit the columns results using "Select columns" from dataverse, and that fixed it for me.

     

    Thank you for your help!

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