I'm trying to pass a JSON string from within a powershell script to the build.phonegap.com api, using curl.
According to phonegap's forum, when running on a Windows machine, the JSON data has to be formatted as:
curl.exe -ku user@email:mypass -X PUT -d "data={\"password\":\"keypass\"}" https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/key
Indeed, this does run fine when invoked from the command line.
However, when I try to invoke this from within a powershell script, the double quotes seem to be stripped.
So far, I have tried:
- Putting the JSON in single quoted string:
curl.exe -ku user@email:mypass -X PUT -d '"data={\"password\":\"keypass\"}"' https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/key
- Putting the JSON in single quoted string, without the DOS escape backslashes:
curl.exe -ku user@email:mypass -X PUT -d '"data={"password":"keypass"}"' https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/key
- Putting the JSON in single quoted string, escaping the double quotes and backslashes (DOS style with a backslash):
curl.exe -ku user@email:mypass -X PUT -d '\"data={\\\"password\\\":\\\"keypass\\\"}\"' https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/key
- Putting the JSON in a double quoted string, escaping the double quotes with the powershell backtick character (
`
):
curl.exe -ku user@email:mypass -X PUT -d "`"data={\`"password\`":\`"build*2014`\`"}`"" https://build.phonegap.com/api/v1/key
Any idea how to achieve this?
Thanks for your time, Koen
the double quotes seem to be stripped.
how do you assert that? – njzk2"
aren't necessary, and while the workaround with the additional\
-escaping is effective, it (a) shouldn't be necessary and (b) would break if and when the underlying PowerShell problem is fixed, though this may be mitigated by the fix - currently (since PowerShell Core 7.2.0-preview.5) only available as experimental featurePSNativeCommandArgumentPassing
possibly requiring opt-in - assuming it becomes an official feature. – mklement0