Creating a group using cURL with REST api

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justind
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Creating a group using cURL with REST api

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Please I'm new to Alfresco and I tried to create a group using curl on my command line terminal. Here's the code:

curl -uadmin:rockstar -X PUT { "newGroup" : ["authorityType" : "GROUP", "shortName" : "COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400LVL", "fullName" : "COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400_LEVEL", "displayName" : "COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400LVL", "url" : "api/groups/COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400LVL", "zones" : ["APP.DEFAULT", "AUTH.ALF"] "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/groups"

But I got this error:

curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: newGroup
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (3) [globbing] bad range in column 2
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: GROUP,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: shortName
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400LVL,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: fullName
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400_LEVEL,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: displayName
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400LVL,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: url
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: api
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: zones
curl: (6) Could not resolve host:
curl: (3) [globbing] bad range in column 2
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 9
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Web Script Status 405 - Method Not Allowed</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/alfresco/css/webscripts.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td><img src="/alfresco/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo32.png" alt="Alfresco" /></td>
<td><span class="title">Web Script Status 405 - Method Not Allowed</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table>
<tr><td>The Web Script <a href="%2Falfresco%2Fservice%2Fapi%2Fgroups">/alfresco/service/api/groups</a> has responded with a status of 405 - Method Not Allowed.</td></tr>
</table>
<br/>
<table>
<tr><td><b>405 Description:</b></td><td> The method specified in the Request-Line is not allowed for the resource identified by the Request-URI.</td></tr>
<tr><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Message:</b></td><td>03110002 Script url /api/groups does not support the method PUT</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Server</b>:</td><td>Community v5.2.0 (re21f2be5-b22) schema 10,057</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Time</b>:</td><td>Apr 11, 2018 10:50:37 AM</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td> </td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Please tell me what i'm missing. Thanks in advance.

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mehe
Senior Member II

Re: Creating a group using cURL with REST api

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You would have to put -d in front of your JSON Data and put the data in single quotes. I usually declare the content type -H 'Content-Type: application/json' so

curl -uadmin:rockstar -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{ "newGroup" :.......}' ....

should do it

 

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mehe
Senior Member II

Re: Creating a group using cURL with REST api

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You would have to put -d in front of your JSON Data and put the data in single quotes. I usually declare the content type -H 'Content-Type: application/json' so

curl -uadmin:rockstar -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{ "newGroup" :.......}' ....

should do it

 

justind
Member II

Re: Creating a group using cURL with REST api

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Sorry for the late reply, Thanks. This really helped!