Hey,
First of all, httpie is a magnificent piece of software. I can't remember how many colleagues I recommended using it.
There's a problem I've encountered. According to the spec providing JSON params is done via the :=
operator. But launching httpie 0.9.9 with these params:
http post localhost/example/ param1="a b c" param2=d jparam:='["test string"]'
Results in a message about invalid JSON. But ["test string"]
is valid JSON afaik.
http: error: "jparam:='[test string]'": Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Maybe anyone could shed some line on what seems to be wrong?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a JSON object usually in the format {"key":"value"}?
@poskadesign the command looks okay and it works for me in Bash. It could be some escaping issue if you use some other shell.
$ http -v httpbin.org/post param1="a b c" param2=d jparam:='["test string"]'
POST /post HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 61
Content-Type: application/json
Host: httpbin.org
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.9.9
{
"jparam": [
"test string"
],
"param1": "a b c",
"param2": "d"
}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 568
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 10:58:53 GMT
Server: meinheld/0.6.1
Via: 1.1 vegur
X-Powered-By: Flask
X-Processed-Time: 0.000903844833374
{
"args": {},
"data": "{\"param1\": \"a b c\", \"param2\": \"d\", \"jparam\": [\"test string\"]}",
"files": {},
"form": {},
"headers": {
"Accept": "application/json, */*",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"Connection": "close",
"Content-Length": "61",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "HTTPie/0.9.9"
},
"json": {
"jparam": [
"test string"
],
"param1": "a b c",
"param2": "d"
},
"origin": "…",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}
Hi, I'm a newbie to open source projects. I would like work on this issue. Could you please provide me with more info?
@poskadesign What OS and shell is that? It looks like your shell consumed the double quotes to avoid word-splitting on the space, but then left the single quotes in the argument.
It is something like that.. http POST https://httpbin.org/post wicked=witch casts:='["spells", "curses"]' --json
@sriyanfernando still doesn't work (httpie 0.99, Windows 10x64, Python 3.61, standard Windows Command Prompt):
C:\Users\Me>http post localhost:8000/mail/ recipients:='["[email protected]"]' --json
usage: http [--json] [--form] [--pretty {all,colors,format,none}]
[--style STYLE] [--print WHAT] [--headers] [--body] [--verbose]
[--all] [--history-print WHAT] [--stream] [--output FILE]
[--download] [--continue]
[--session SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH | --session-read-only SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH]
[--auth USER[:PASS]] [--auth-type {basic,digest}]
[--proxy PROTOCOL:PROXY_URL] [--follow]
[--max-redirects MAX_REDIRECTS] [--timeout SECONDS]
[--check-status] [--verify VERIFY]
[--ssl {ssl2.3,ssl3,tls1,tls1.1,tls1.2}] [--cert CERT]
[--cert-key CERT_KEY] [--ignore-stdin] [--help] [--version]
[--traceback] [--default-scheme DEFAULT_SCHEME] [--debug]
[METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEM [REQUEST_ITEM ...]]
http: error: "recipients:='[[email protected]]'": Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
@poskadesign Try this:
http post localhost/example/ param1="a b c" param2=d jparam:="[\"test string\"]"
I'm not very familiar with Windows command line, but found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17205292/quotes-around-quotes-in-windows-command-line which is similar.
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@poskadesign Try this:
I'm not very familiar with Windows command line, but found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17205292/quotes-around-quotes-in-windows-command-line which is similar.