cURL to PowerShell - Double hash table in --data?

Question

I\'ve been trying (and failing for hours) to convert this cURL script into PowerShell:

curl -X POST \\
  https://example.net \\
  -H \'Authorization: Bearer 1234         


        

Answer 1

• Your $Body variable contains a hashtable (@{ ... }), so you must explicitly convert it to JSON with ConvertTo-Json.

• Additionally, because you're calling an external program, you must escape the " chars. in the JSON string as \"^[1]:

$CurlArgument = '-X', 'POST',
                'https://example.net',
                '-H', 'Authorization: Bearer 1234567890',
                '-H', 'Content-Type: application/json',
                '-d', 
                (($Body | ConvertTo-Json) -replace '"', '\"')

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^{[1] This additional escaping requirement is highly unfortunate, but to date it has been kept around for the sake of backward compatibility. This GitHub docs issue tells the whole story.}