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 <[email protected]> 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 > >
