Making a POST via Curl

PHP
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Could anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong here while sending the serialized data via POST using curl below:

$urlTest = ‘http://localhost:9090/JAXRS_POST_Request/rest/Request/insertDataToDB’;

	$rCURL = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); 
	curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $_POST["myData"]);
	curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_URL, $urlTest);
	curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($rCURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$response_post = curl_exec($rCURL);
	curl_close($rCURL);

$_POST["mydata"] contains the following :

[{ "name": "FirstName", "value": "Mickey" }, { "name": "LastName", "value": "Mouse" }]

I have tested the webservice by sending request separately via POSTMAN client and it works there.

2

In post man you can export the request to a php curl call. Do that and compare with what you have written here. Postman provides a lot of options for exporting calls to various languages.

3

That’s a good point. Do you know how I can convert a POST request (that I am already running on POSTMAN) to Curl based request?

I saw the import option there and saw some articles online explaining CURL to POSTMAN. Could’t find anything where my existing request can be converted to curl based request.

Thanks

4

Is this what @zookeeper was talking about above? It seems that postman will do it for you: https://www.getpostman.com/docs/v6/postman/sending_api_requests/generate_code_snippets

5

I was referring to what @droopsnoot is referring to.

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