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Pmel
Pmel

Reputation: 93

Github API v3 JSON passing

how can I avoid the parsing errors for

curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.VERSION.raw' -XPUT -g 'https://api.github.com/repos/USER/l1/contents/PATH/FILENAME.json?ref=gh-pages&access_token=57eef6413b12cb439b837b8fc4751b3291650de1' -d '{
   "message": "update from api",
   "committer": {
     "name": "USER",
     "email": "[email protected]"
   },
   "content": "[{"a": "aaa","b": "bbb"}]",
   "sha": "c321fe9f6418053ecb87eb3cd2518a4xdfc83ebf"
   }'

Answer:

{
  "message": "**Problems parsing JSON**",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/"
}

Instead of

"[{"a": "aaa","b": "bbb"}]"

I've tried 

"[{\"a\": \"aaa",\"b\": \"bbb\"}]"

but then I get the following error:

{
  "message": "**content is not valid Base64**",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/"
}

Best,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 321

Answers (1)

Jonathon Reinhart
Jonathon Reinhart

Reputation: 137537

If you open the URL to the documentation given in the error response, you'll see that the content needs to be Base64 encoded.

Upvotes: 1

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