Flask RESTful POST JSON fails

Question

I have a problem posting JSON via curl from cmd (Windows7) to Flask RESTful. This is what I post:

curl.exe -i -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\
 -H \"Acce         


        

Answer 1

I just want to point out that you need to escape regardless of OS - and regardless if you have double quotes around the request data - I saw this post and didn't think it was the answer to my issue because I had double quotes around the request data and single quotes inside:

This won't work:

-d "{'Hello': 'Karl'}"

This will:

-d "{\"Hello\":\"Karl\"}"

Again, you need to escape the quotes regardless of OS (I'm on Mac) and regardless of whether you have single or double quotes

And thanks Sabuj Hassan for your answer!

Answer 2

-d '{"Hello":"Karl"}' doesn't work from windows as its surrounded by single quotes. Use double quotes around and it will work for you.

-d "{\"Hello\":\"Karl\"}"

Answer 3

To add-on to the previous two answers, you do not need to escape the quotes across all OS's, following this syntax will work just fine on Mac/Linux:

-d '{"Hello":"Karl"}'