Windows curl string formatting

Question

I am trying to use curl to make an HTTP POST request.

The request contains some environment variables. Here is the command:

curl -X POST -u username:pass -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"fields\": { \"project\": { \"key\": \"myproject\" }, \"summary\": \"${var1.name} - ${var2.name}\", \"description\": \"Testing testing!:\n${url}\", \"issuetype\": { \"name\": \"Task\" }}}" http://myurl.com/rest

The information is sent, but the ${var1.name} and ${var2.name} are being sent as literal strings and not as their actual values.

The command is run on windows so that is why I am escaping the quotes. Could that be a problem as to why they're being sent as strings?

Windows environment variables are deferenced as %va1% and %var2%. Can you provide more information about where you're running this? e.g. Visual Studio Postbuild, or cmd shell, or powershell? — Jared Dykstra
– Jared Dykstra, Commented Oct 30, 2015 at 20:02

Jared Dykstra · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-30 20:47:25Z

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Windows environment variables are deferenced as %var1% and %var2%. This works:

C:\>set var1.name=test1
C:\>set var2.name=test2
C:\>set var
var1.name=test1
var2.name=test2

curl.exe -X POST -u username:pass -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"fields\": { \"project\": { \"key\": \"myproject\" }, \"summary\": \"%var1.name% - %var2.name%\", \"description\": \"Testing testing!:\n${url}\", \"issuetype\": { \"name\": \"Task\" }}}" http://myurl.com/rest

edited Oct 30, 2015 at 20:47

answered Oct 30, 2015 at 20:11

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