How to use cURL to post a JSON payload to a REST API endpoint?
Generic format:
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$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"key":"val"}' URL |
Example:
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$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8000/stations --data '{"name":"Limerick3", "id":"0000001033", "region":{"name":"Shannon", "id":"2"}}' |
Response data:
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[ {"name":"Limerick","id":"0000001043","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":2}}, {"name":"Boolick","id":"0000001011","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":2}}, {"name":"Limerick2","id":"","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":0}}, {"name":"Limerick3","id":"","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":0}} ] |
Example:
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$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8000/stations --data '{"name":"Limerick4", "id":"0000001035", "region":{"name":"Shannon", "id":"2"}}' |
Response data:
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[ {"name":"Limerick","id":"0000001043","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":2}}, {"name":"Boolick","id":"0000001011","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":2}}, {"name":"Limerick2","id":"","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":0}}, {"name":"Limerick3","id":"","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":0}}, {"name":"Limerick4","id":"","region":{"name":"Shannon","id":0}} ] |
More information about how to use curl can be found in the official tutorial.
