You should be able to do the following:
$params = @{"@type"="login";
"username"="[email protected]";
"password"="yyy";
}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://foobar.com/endpoint -Method POST -Body $params
This will send the post as the body. However - if you want to post this as a Json you might want to be explicit. To post this as a JSON you can specify the ContentType and convert the body to Json by using
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://foobar.com/endpoint -Method POST -Body ($params|ConvertTo-Json) -ContentType "application/json"
Extra: You can also use the Invoke-RestMethod for dealing with JSON and REST apis (which will save you some extra lines for de-serializing)
Use Invoke-RestMethod
to consume REST-APIs. Save the JSON to a string and use that as the body, ex:
$JSON = @'
{"@type":"login",
"username":"[email protected]",
"password":"yyy"
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://somesite.com/oneendpoint" -Method Post -Body $JSON -ContentType "application/json"
If you use Powershell 3, I know there have been some issues with Invoke-RestMethod
, but you should be able to use Invoke-WebRequest
as a replacement:
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://somesite.com/oneendpoint" -Method Post -Body $JSON -ContentType "application/json"
If you don't want to write your own JSON every time, you can use a hashtable and use PowerShell to convert it to JSON before posting it. Ex.
$JSON = @{
"@type" = "login"
"username" = "[email protected]"
"password" = "yyy"
} | ConvertTo-Json
@Frode F. gave the right answer.
By the Way Invoke-WebRequest
also prints you the 200 OK
and a lot of bla, bla, bla... which might be useful but I still prefer the Invoke-RestMethod
which is lighter.
Also, keep in mind that you need to use | ConvertTo-Json
for the body only, not the header:
$body = @{
"UserSessionId"="12345678"
"OptionalEmail"="[email protected]"
} | ConvertTo-Json
$header = @{
"Accept"="application/json"
"connectapitoken"="97fe6ab5b1a640909551e36a071ce9ed"
"Content-Type"="application/json"
}
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://MyServer/WSVistaWebClient/RESTService.svc/member/search" -Method 'Post' -Body $body -Headers $header | ConvertTo-HTML
and you can then append a | ConvertTo-HTML
at the end of the request for better readability
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