calling CURL with POST data and headers on command

Question

I am using RESTAPI to communicate php client with django server. I have posted json data. The php code is

$arr=array("username"=>"dtthtdas45", 
          "password"=>"123456", 
          "email"=>"[e-mail]", 
          "is_active"=>"1", 
          "is_staff"=>"1", 
          "is_superuser"=>"1",
          "promo_code"=>"1212121",
          "gender"=>"m",
          "birth_year"=>"1991",
          "zip"=>"77707",
          "first_name"=>"john",
          "last_name"=>"doe",
          "current_state"=>"1"
          );
echo $data_string= json_encode($arr);
$ch = curl_init('http://localhost:8000/api/ecp/user/?format=json');                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");                                                                     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);                                                                  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);                                                                      
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(                                                                          
    'Content-Type: application/json',                                                                                
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))                                                                       
);                                                                                                                   
 $result = curl_exec($ch);

How can i call same URL using command line only?

I tried the folowing

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"username": "dtthtdas45", "password": "123456","email":"[e-mail]","is_active":"1","is_staff":"1","is_superuser",promo_code":"1212121","gender":"m","birth_year":"1991","zip":"77707","first_name":"john","last_name":"doe","current_state":"1"}' http://localhost:8000/api/ecp/user/?format=json

but no luck , it shows the folowing error

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'application'
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'dtthtdas45,'
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'password:'

Answer 1

How can i call same URL using command line only?

I didn't write out all the data pairs, but the following should get you started. I suggest reading more on curl

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"username": "dtthtdas45", "password": "123456"}' http://localhost:8000/api/ecp/user/?format=json

Note: Assuming you are doing this for more endpoints, you might want to check out a tool like resty.