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How can I make this work?
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9290/location/place' -d '{"geoloc": {"lat": "38.1899", "lon": "-76.5087"}, "longitude": "-76.5087", "admin_name1": "Maryland", "admin_name2": "St. Mary's", "admin_name3": "", "postal_code": "20692", "admin_code3": "", "country_code": "US", "admin_code1": "MD", "latitude": "38.1899", "admin_code2": "037", "accuracy": null, "place_name": "Valley Lee"}' The ' in Mary's is causing this to fail. I am running it from a file like cat curl-cmd.txt | sh but it won't work from the command line either. I've tried using \' and \\' and \u0027 (the unicode ')
I'm stuck
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The backslash ( \ ) character is used to escape characters that otherwise have a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote character.
Quoting and Escaping. Single quotes tell Integration Engine to take what is enclosed in the single quotes literally. No escaping is used with single quotes. Use a double backslash as the escape character for backslash.
You can most certainly escape double quotes. How you do that depends on your operating system and shell, which you fail to specify. On Windows, you'd use the ^ as the escape character.
Backslash is used to start an escape sequence inside character constants. Escaping a character not in the following table is an error. Single quotes need to be escaped by backslash in single-quoted strings, and double quotes in double-quoted strings.
I had the same problem. The simplest solution is to escape the apostrophe with a backslash in addition to wrapping it in a set of single quotes. '\''
For your use case, change Mary's to Mary'\''s and it should work.
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9290/location/place' -d '{"geoloc": {"lat": "38.1899", "lon": "-76.5087"}, "longitude": "-76.5087", "admin_name1": "Maryland", "admin_name2": "St. Mary'\''s", "admin_name3": "", "postal_code": "20692", "admin_code3": "", "country_code": "US", "admin_code1": "MD", "latitude": "38.1899", "admin_code2": "037", "accuracy": null, "place_name": "Valley Lee"}' An alternate approach is to wrap the POST data (
-d) in double quotes while escaping all nested occurrences of double quotes in the JSON string with a backslash.
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9290/location/place' -d "{\"geoloc\": {\"lat\": \"38.1899\", \"lon\": \"-76.5087\"}, \"longitude\": \"-76.5087\", \"admin_name1\": \"Maryland\", \"admin_name2\": \"St. Mary's\", \"admin_name3\": \"\", \"postal_code\": \"20692\", \"admin_code3\": \"\", \"country_code\": \"US\", \"admin_code1\": \"MD\", \"latitude\": \"38.1899\", \"admin_code2\": \"037\", \"accuracy\": null, \"place_name\": \"Valley Lee\"}" If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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