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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:52:00 +1200
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From: Dave Cottlehuber <dave@muse.net.nz>
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Hi Andrew

This is a windows thing regarding quoting - a real PITA. Unfortunately
cmd.exe shell on windows doesn't parse this correctly.
The rules for when escaping with a "" or a ^" or a \" are a bit vague
but this works:

C:\tmp>curl -X PUT
http://@127.0.0.1:5984/albums/6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af -d
"{\"title\":\"There is Nothing Left to Lose\",\"artist\":\"Foo
Fighters\"}"
{"ok":true,"id":"6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af","rev":"1-4b39c2971c9ad54cb37e08fa02fec636"}

C:\tmp>

"basically you need to \"escape\" all \"quotes\" within your JSON"

Is there any way we to get this updated in the online book?

A+
Dave


On 28 July 2010 09:24, Andrew Woodcock <andywoodcock11@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> this is probably a real noob problem but I am experiencing an issue where
> whenever I try to create a document on CouchDB using curl, I get an "Invalid
> UTF-8 JSON" error. The example I am trying to use is actually from
> O'Reilly's book "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" and I am pretty sure that I
> have tried it before and got it to work. Here's the command:
>
> |curl-X PUT
> http://username:password@127.0.0.1:5984/albums/6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af
> -d '{"title":"There is Nothing Left to Lose","artist":"Foo Fighters"}'
> |
>
> The database albums exists and the username and password are correct. I have
> checked this with JSONLint and the JSON is valid and I am at a loss ...
> presumably there is an issue with the CouchDB server itself but it appears
> to be running correctly ... any ideas? This is driving me nuts!
>
> I am running CouchDB 0.11 on Windows 7. curl is installed and working
> correctly as far as I can tell. Sofa is working correctly and I can create
> documents via Sofa with no issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>