#!/usr/bin/env bash # read user input: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/078 URL='http://localhost:1337/api/comments' read -p "title: " title read -p "content: " content DATA="{\"title\": \"$title\", \"content\": \"$content\"}" echo "Posting $DATA to $URL" curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "$DATA" "$URL" exit 0 #http://goinbigdata.com/using-curl-for-ad-hoc-testing-of-restful-microservices/ #https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7172784/how-to-post-json-data-with-curl-from-terminal-commandline-to-test-spring-rest