cURL’s Upcoming Native JSON Support: What It Means for Developers
cURL author Daniel Stenberg announced plans to add native JSON handling, explaining its importance for REST APIs, the common pain points developers face, and introducing two new command‑line options that simplify sending JSON payloads and headers.
cURL author Daniel Stenberg announced plans to add native JSON support to cURL.
He explained that sending JSON is common in REST APIs, many users consider “easy JSON usage” when evaluating alternatives to cURL, and that quoting JSON correctly in shells is a frequent source of errors.
Because he does not frequently send JSON himself, he is seeking community help to design useful options.
Two command‑line options are proposed:
A shortcut that sends formatted JSON with --json (or -|<data>|@filename) and automatically adds the appropriate Accept: application/json header.
An option to build a JSON request body and send it with the proper Content‑Type: application/json header.
Example usage: curl --json [whatever] http://example.com This is equivalent to:
-d [whatever] -H "Content-Type: application/json"--jp [part]
The “jp” stands for “JSON part”; [part] specifies the JSON content to be constructed.
For more details, see the wiki page: https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/JSON
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