HTTPie: Set data in a file as request payload field value

You can set the non-string payload using := operator.

address.json

{
    "street" : "Cho street",
    "city" : "Bangalore",
    "state" : "Karnataka",
    "country" : "India"
}

Example

http POST http://localhost:8080/public/aboutUs name="ABC Corp" establishedYear:=2019 address:=@address.json

As you see above example, establishedYear is of type integer, it is set using := operator, similarly address is set with the data from address.json file.

Above request is equivalent to below snippet.

POST /public/aboutUs HTTP/1.1

Accept: application/json, */*

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Length: 145

Content-Type: application/json

Host: localhost:8080

User-Agent: HTTPie/1.0.2

{

    "address": {

        "city": "Bangalore",

        "country": "India",

        "state": "Karnataka",

        "street": "Cho street"

    },

    "establishedYear": 2019,

    "name": "ABC Corp"

}

Let’s post some data to aboutUs API.

$http POST http://localhost:8080/public/aboutUs name="ABC Corp" establishedYear:=2019 address:=@address.json
HTTP/1.1 201 
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:28:13 GMT
Expires: 0
Pragma: no-cache
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

{
    "address": {
        "city": "Bangalore",
        "country": "India",
        "state": "Karnataka",
        "street": "Cho street"
    },
    "establishedYear": 2019,
    "name": "ABC Corp"
}

$
$
$http http://localhost:8080/public/aboutUs name="ABC Corp" establishedYear:=2019 address:=@address.json
HTTP/1.1 201 
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:28:22 GMT
Expires: 0
Pragma: no-cache
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

{
    "address": {
        "city": "Bangalore",
        "country": "India",
        "state": "Karnataka",
        "street": "Cho street"
    },
    "establishedYear": 2019,
    "name": "ABC Corp"
}

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