How do I POST JSON data with Curl from a terminal/commandline to Test Spring REST?

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

_x000D_ You need to set your content-type to application/json. But -d sends the Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is not accepted on Spring's side. Looking at the curl man page, I think you can use -H: -H "Content-Type: application/json" Full example: curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --request POST \ --data '{"username":"xyz","password":"xyz"}' \ http://localhost:3000/api/login (-H is short for --header, -d for --data) Note that -request POST is optional if you use -d, as the -d flag implies a POST request. On Windows, things are slightly different. See the comment thread.