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I'm trying to run a curl command from the command line in Windows, but for the life of me I can't figure out how I'm supposed to escape it.
I'm executing this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>curl --anyauth --user user:password -X POST -d "{\"rest-api\":{\"name\":\"BizSimDebug3\"}}" -H "Content-type: application/xml" http://localhost:8002/v1/rest-apis
And I'm getting this:
<rapi:error xmlns:rapi="http://marklogic.com/rest-api">
<rapi:status-code>400</rapi:status-code>
<rapi:status>Bad Request</rapi:status>
<rapi:message-code>RESTAPI-INVALIDCONTENT</rapi:message-code>
<rapi:message>Your bootstrap payload caused the server to throw an error. Underlying error message: XDMP-DOCROOTTEXT: xdmp:get-request-body() -- Invalid root text "{&quot;rest-api&quot;:{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;BizSimDebug3&quot;}}" at line 1</rapi:message>
</rapi:error>
Is there something else I need to do to escape the inner quotes in the -d flag? Or am I overlooking the real issue entirely?
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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.
Invoke curl.exe from a command window (in Windows, click Start > Run and then enter "cmd" in the Run dialog box). You can enter curl --help to see a list of cURL commands.
The most popular Curl equivalents for Windows are: Wget. Wget is a free command-line tool for downloading files using the HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. Wget is a non-interactive command-line tool that can be easily invoked from scripts, deferred commands, non-X-Windows terminals, etc. VSCode Rest Client.
This works in Windows:
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"Field1\": 123, \"Field2\": 456 }" "http://localhost:8080"
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