How to use HTTPie to send an un-named JSON array

Question

I have an API I want to invoke that wants something like this to be POSTed in the body: ["foo","bar"]

I have read the official docs and can't see how to do this, is it possible?

I have tried: http --verbose PUT foo.org :='["foo","bar"]' but HTTPie still wants to turn that into a field of a JSON object, with no name, as in:

{
    "": [
        "foo",
        "bar"
    ]
}

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '19 at 07:50

The shorthand syntax httpie offers doesn't support empty strings as keys. The easiest option here will be to pass the data via redirected stdin:


$ echo '{"": ["foo","bar"]}' | http --verbose PUT foo.org

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