Hey Andrew, I remember people on this ML having problems with escaping/quotes on windows which leads to this kind of error. You could try to save the document to foo.json and curl-X PUT http://username:[email protected]:5984/albums/6e1295ed6c29495e54cc05947f18c8af -d @foo.json
Best Sebastian On 27.07.2010, at 23:24, Andrew Woodcock 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:[email protected]: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 >
