CURL To Post Application/json (David P)

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Hi David

If you’ve got if fixed that way, great.

Just thought I’d comment and share the scripts / manner we use this, using CURL, and mention one major gotcha I ran into that took me a few hours to solve related with using CURL in CentOS 7 on Asterisk 1.8.32.3, and then switching to 13.22.0.

This is what our dialplan logic looks like to get a UUID from a CURL call made in a BASH file to our back-end application’s API.

Dialplan:

same=>n,Set(curlResult=${SHELL(/usr/src/bash/getUUID.sh)})

BASH file:

getUUID.sh

#!/bin/bash function jsonval {
temp=`echo $jsonResult | sed ‘s/\\\\\//\//g’ | sed ‘s/[{}]//g’ | awk -v k=”text” ‘{n=split($0,a,”,”); for (i=1; i<=n; i++) print a[i]}' | sed 's/\"\:\"/\|/g' | sed 's/[\,]/ /g' | sed 's/\"//g'` echo ${temp##*|} } baseUrl=http://127.0.0.1/api/getUUID jsonResult=$(curl --connect-timeout 16 --max-time 32 -s -X GET $baseUrl) uuid=`jsonval` echo -n $uuid --- This returns our UUID (from the Java app) into the dialplan variable curlResult which we then use further on in the dialplan. The MAJOR gotcha in this above is the line... On Asterisk 1.8.32.3, this worked fine in the BASH script: echo $uuid However, on Asterisk 13.22.0, it did NOT work - the dialplan variable curlResult stayed empty on any calls to the BASH script vir SET() in Asterisk. Turns out that 13.22.0 does NOT like line feed / new line (\n) in ANY strings that come back from BASH. So I had to change the above line in the BASH file to echo -n $uuid so that the line-feed / newline was omitted from being returned to the Asterisk 13 instance. Just some two cents worth. Regards Stefan --