I have been given a url .. www.abc.com/details
and asked to send my name and phone number on this url using POST
. They have told me to set the content-type as application/json and the body as valid JSON with the following keys:
name: name of the user
phone number: phone number of the user
Now i have no clue how to send this request! Will it be something like:
http://www.abc.com/details?method=post&name=john&phonenumber=445566
or do i have to use java
to send the same?
Please help
Based on what you provided, it is pretty simple for what you need to do and you even have a number of ways to go about doing it. You'll need something that'll let you post a body with your request. Almost any programming language can do this as well as command line tools like cURL.
One you have your tool decided, you'll need to create your JSON body and submit it to the server.
An example using cURL would be (all in one line, minus the \
at the end of the first line):
curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
-d '{"name":"your name","phonenumber":"111-111"}' http://www.abc.com/details
The above command will create a request that should look like the following:
POST /details HTTP/1.1
Host: www.abc.com
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 44
{"name":"your name","phonenumber":"111-111"}
You can post data to a url with JavaScript & Jquery something like that:
$.post("www.abc.com/details", {
json_string: JSON.stringify({name:"John", phone number:"+410000000"})
});
It is not possible to send POST parameters in the url in a starightforward manner. POST request in itself means sending information in the body.
I found a fairly simple way to do this. Use Postman by Google, which allows you to specify the content-type(a header field) as application/json and then provide name-value pairs as parameters.
You can find clear directions at http://docs.brightcove.com/en/video-cloud/player-management/guides/postman.html
Just use your url in the place of theirs.
Hope it helps
In windows this command does not work for me..I have tried the following command and it works..using this command I created session in couchdb sync gate way for the specific user...
curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{ \"name\": \"abc\",\"password\": \"abc123\" }" http://localhost:4984/todo/_session
You can use postman.
Where select Post as method.
and In Request Body send JSON Object.
In Java you can use GET
which shows requested data on URL.But POST
method cannot , because POST
has body but GET
donot have body.