cURL request for API access - JSON error

robsi

Hi,

So I have been playing with the API access as we use slack and hubot to deploy and control a lot of day to day things.

This is the command I am running

curl -u 'solarwindsadmin@globalad.org:PASSWORD' -o output.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" -k -X POST -d @test.json 10.199.0.22:17778/.../CustomProperties jazor -c output.json

test.json:

{ "Comments":"test from hubot" }

In hubot I can wrap all of this in coffeescript.

The command works - as in it changes the value of comments but has this error:

E, [2014-09-23T15:30:47.643348 #42940] ERROR -- : 757: unexpected token at 'null' (JSON::ParserError) /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/json/common.rb:155:in `parse' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/json/common.rb:155:in `parse' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/jazor-0.1.8/lib/jazor.rb:22:in `parse' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/jazor-0.1.8/bin/jazor:89:in `<top (required)>' /usr/bin/jazor:23:in `load' /usr/bin/jazor:23:in `<main>'

Am I going about this all wrong btw? This has got to be the most complicated API I have ever used.

Thanks

Rob

tdanner

When you make an update call like that, there is no body in the response. The HTTP "200 OK" status is all you need. So I suspect output.json is empty, which is why your json parser is rejecting it.