I am currently trying to automate new user creation in our Zendesk ticketing system using Powershell and Curl. The problem I am running into is that the curl json body is enclosed by single quotes and I need to reference a variable inside that body. Here is what I have:
$Firstname = "Test"
$Lastname = "User"
$email= 'user@test.org'
curl.exe https://mydomain.zendesk.com/api/v2/users.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{\"user\": {\"name\": \"$Firstname $Lastname\", \"email\": \"$email\"}}' -v -u myuser:mypass
This works fine if I type in regular text values inside the json, but how can I get it to recognize the variables $Firstname, $Lastname and $email?