JSON requests in C using libcurl

Question

I\'m defining a PUT request with a JSON request body using libcurl in C.

This how I\'m doing it:

    sprintf(jsonObj, \"\\\"name\\\" : \\\"%s\\\", \\         


        

Answer 1

I was having a similar Issue.

I discovered the -libcurl option for the curl command. It helped a lot! Just add it to the end of your working curl command.

In the end it help me create this code:

  CURLcode ret;
  CURL *hnd;
  struct curl_slist *slist1;
  std::string jsonstr = "{\"username\":\"bob\",\"password\":\"12345\"}";

  slist1 = NULL;
  slist1 = curl_slist_append(slist1, "Content-Type: application/json");

  hnd = curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "http://u/r/l");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, jsonstr.c_str());
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/7.38.0");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, slist1);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, 1L);

  ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

  curl_easy_cleanup(hnd);
  hnd = NULL;
  curl_slist_free_all(slist1);
  slist1 = NULL;

Express recieves this JSON as:

{ username: 'bob', password: '12345' }

I hope this helps!