"Invalid JSON payload received." when creating a new sheet - google-sheets

Question

I'm just starting out with the Sheets API, and I'm following this setup to create a new sheet: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/create
In this code, the spreadsheetBody object is empty. For this I've used the example on this page: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/samples/writing and added this code to the spreadsheetBody variable:
{
"range": "Sheet1!A1:D5",
"majorDimension": "ROWS",
"values": [
["Item", "Cost", "Stocked", "Ship Date"],
["Wheel", "$20.50", "4", "3/1/2016"],
["Door", "$15", "2", "3/15/2016"],
["Engine", "$100", "1", "30/20/2016"],
["Totals", "=SUM(B2:B4)", "=SUM(C2:C4)", "=MAX(D2:D4)"]
],
}
However, when I post this I get the error "Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "range" at 'spreadsheet': Cannot find field.". What might be wrong here?

Answer 1

The request body you are using is for spreadsheets.values.update.
As a sample, the request body for creating Spreadsheet is as follows. In this sample request body, ["Item", "Cost", "Stocked", "Ship Date"], ["Wheel", "$20.50", "4", "3/1/2016"] was used from the document you use.
Sample request body:
{
"properties":
{
"title": "sampleSpreadsheet"
},
"sheets":
[
{
"data":
[
{
"startRow": 0,
"startColumn": 0,
"rowData":
[
{
"values":
[
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"stringValue": "Item"
}
},
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"stringValue": "Cost"
}
},
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"stringValue": "Stocked"
}
},
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"stringValue": "Ship Date"
}
}
]
},
{
"values":
[
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"stringValue": "Wheel"
}
},
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"numberValue": 20.5
},
"userEnteredFormat":
{
"numberFormat":
{
"type": "NUMBER",
"pattern": "$##.00"
}
}
},
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"numberValue": 4
}
},
{
"userEnteredValue":
{
"numberValue": 42372
},
"userEnteredFormat":
{
"numberFormat":
{
"type": "DATE",
"pattern": "d/m/yyyy"
}
}
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
Note:
When this request body is used for spreadsheets.create, a Spreadsheet with the filename of sampleSpreadsheet is created. The sheet has the values of ["Item", "Cost", "Stocked", "Ship Date"], ["Wheel", "$20.50", "4", "3/1/2016"] at "A1:D2".
References:
spreadsheets.create- spreadsheets.batchUpdate