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How to use Curl to make a POST request with Dropwizard

I have Dropwizard backend end and like to use curl to make a POST request with a Json body

I used Postman with the settings on the body tab raw radio button selected and on the drop down menu JSON(applicattion/json).I entered the body and was able to successfully create a POST request. However when I used curl I get an error. I used 

curl -v  -X POST "localhost:8080/resource" 
-H "Content-Type: application/json" 
-d '{label1: "words1", label2: "words2"}'

I get the error message 

 {"code":400,"message":"Unable to process JSON"}

From my understanding it is curl that has an issue since Postman was able to create the POST request.

Solution

  • This

    {label1: "words1", label2: "words2"}

    is not JSON. Use

    {"label1": "words1", "label2": "words2"}