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tzippy
tzippy

Reputation: 6638

Bash script: Use string variable in curl JSON Post data

I want to send a json request and embedd a variable in the post data. I did a little research and I came up with the single quotes around the variable.

    #!/bin/bash
    FILENAME="/media/file.avi"
    curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" —d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params":{"item":{"file":"'$FILENAME'"}}}' http://192.167.0.13/jsonrpc

Unfortunately I get some errors:

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host '—d'
curl: (3) [globbing] nested braces not supported at pos 54
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 76
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:16:56 GMT

{"error":{"code":-32700,"message":"Parse error."},"id":null,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

Appearently there are some problems with the braces and the http answer states, that the command could not be executed. What's wrong with my code here? Thanks!

This is my curl version:

curl 7.30.0 (mips-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.30.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8y
Protocols: file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps tftp 
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL

Upvotes: 15

Views: 41303

Answers (3)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531055

You can use:

request_body=$(cat <<EOF
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "Player.Open",
  "params": {
    "item": {
      "file": "$FILENAME"
    }
  }
}
EOF
)

However, if it is an option, use jq to generate the JSON instead. This ensures that the value of $FILENAME is properly quoted.

request_body=$(jq -n --arg fname "$FILENAME" '
{
  jsonrpc: "2.0",
  method: "Player.Open",
  params: {item: {file: $fname}}
}'

Upvotes: 22

czerasz
czerasz

Reputation: 14250

Here is another way to insert data from a file into a JSON property. This solution is based on a really cool command called jq.

Below is an example which prepares request JSON data, used to create a CoreOS droplet on Digital Ocean:

# Load the cloud config to variable
user_data=$(cat config/cloud-config)

# Prepare the request data 
request_data='{
  "name": "server name",
  "region": "fra1",
  "size": "512mb",
  "image": "coreos-stable",
  "backups": false,
  "ipv6": true,
  "user_data": "---this content will be replaced---",
  "ssh_keys": [1234, 2345]
}'

# Insert data from file into the user_data property
request_data=$(echo $request_data | jq ". + {user_data: \"$user_data\"}")

Upvotes: 1

Hln
Hln

Reputation: 767

My suggestion: 

#!/bin/bash
FILENAME="/media/file 2.avi"
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params":{"item":{"file":"'"$FILENAME"'"}}}' http://192.167.0.13/jsonrpc

The differences are hyphen in -d (instead of a dash) and double quotes around $FILENAME.

Upvotes: 13

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