How to POST JSON data with Curl from TerminalCommandline to Test Spring REST

How to POST JSON data with Curl from Terminal/Commandline to Test Spring REST

You need to set your content-type to application/json. But -d sends the Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is not accepted on Spring’s side.

Looking at the curl man page, I think you can use -H: -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Full example:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username":"xyz","password":"xyz"}' http://localhost:3000/api/login