Curl not working from JetBrains IDE (Windows) for POST

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I am working through the Spring Guides Tutorial: Building Rest services with Spring.

I have followed along the text and entered the code in the tutorial.

I get to the part where I start the service (on local machine) and test using CURL commands.

GET works fine:

Curl -v localhost:8080/employees

returns the expected list

[{"id":1,"name":"Bilbo Baggins","role":"burglar"},{"id":2,"name":"Frodo Baggins","role":"thief"}]

However when I execute:

curl -X POST localhost:8080/employees -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d '{"name": "Samwise Gamgee", "role": "gardener"}'

I get:

{"timestamp":"2018-11-08T20:55:49.844+0000","status":415,"error":"Unsupported Media Type","message":"Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' not supported","path":"/employees"}

Here is the Controller Code

package com.mainsworth.payroll;

import java.util.List;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.DeleteMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PutMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

 @RestController

 class EmployeeController {
     private final EmployeeRepository repository;
     EmployeeController(EmployeeRepository repository) {
         this.repository = repository;
    }

@GetMapping("/employees")
List<Employee>all() {
    return repository.findAll();
}

@PostMapping("/employees")
Employee newEmployee(@RequestBody Employee newEmployee) {
    return repository.save(newEmployee);
}

//Single item
@GetMapping("/employees/{id}")
Employee one(@PathVariable Long id) {
    return repository.findById(id)
            .orElseThrow(()-> new EmployeeNotFoundException(id));
}

@PutMapping("/employees/{id}")
Employee replaceEmployee(@RequestBody Employee newEmployee,
                         @PathVariable Long id ) {
    return repository.findById(id)
            .map(employee -> {
                employee.setName(newEmployee.getName());
                employee.setRole(newEmployee.getRole());
                return repository.save(employee);
            })
            .orElseGet(() -> {
                newEmployee.setId(id);
                return repository.save(newEmployee);
            });

}
@DeleteMapping("/employees/{id}")
void deleteEmployee(@PathVariable Long id) {
    repository.deleteById(id);
}

}

I followed Karol's and Jesper's advice. Thanks to both for the quick response. My new Curl is:

curl -X POST  localhost:8080/employees -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -d '{"name": "Samwise Gamgee","role": "gardener"}'

and my new response is:

{"timestamp":"2018-11-08T22:49:01.900+0000","status":415,"error":"Unsupported Media Type","message":"Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' 
not supported","path":"/employees"}application
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Samwise Gamgee,role

curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 9
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3 Answers

It was happening also on my side during the tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/rest/

What was strange that on Linux OS it not happened. I double check on Linux and everything was perfectly fine.

Solution (example): Instead: 

curl -X POST localhost:8080/employees -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d '{"name": "Samwise Gamgee", "role": "gardener"}'

Use:

curl -X POST localhost:8080/employees -H "Content-type:application/json" -d "{\"name\": \"Samwise Gamgee\", \"role\": \"gardener\"}"

Summarizing: Change all ' to " and in body add \ before each "

I hope it helps!

Funfell

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Specify both Content-Type: application/json and Accept: application/json request headers as your endpoint is both consuming and producing the data.

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' ...
user_16025550

In addition to the above answers that do work, I'd like to make people aware of a slight error in that tutorial code when it relates to Springboot 2.

I was getting a 405 after following the curl advisories described here.

I discovered that a tiny tweak to the annotation was needed:

@PostMapping(value="/employees",produces = "application/json")
Employee newEmployee(@RequestBody Employee newEmployee) {
return repository.save(newEmployee);
}

Note that the produced flag is needed to make it react properly to not be given the 405. When combined with the curl command:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"name\": \"Samwise Gamgee\", \"role\": \"gardener\"}" http://localhost:8080/employees
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