curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket - json

Question

I tried to use curl to POST a JSON object to ElasticSearch server but keep getting globbing error
This is my curl command:
curl -X POST "localhost:9200/school/_doc/10?pretty" -H "Content-type:application/json" -d "{"firstName":"Bilbo","lastName":"Baggins"}"
And the error I get from the server :
{
"error" : {
"root_cause" : [
{
"type" : "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason" : "failed to parse"
}
],
"type" : "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason" : "failed to parse",
"caused_by" : {
"type" : "json_e_o_f_exception",
"reason" : "Unexpected end-of-input: expected close marker for Object (start marker at [Source: (byte[])\"{\"; line: 1, column: 1])\n at [Source: (byte[])\"{\"; line: 1, column: 2]"
}
},
"status" : 400
}
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 33

Answer 1

You have a syntax issue with your curl command, proper curl command of your request is
curl -v -XPOST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"firstName":"Bilbo","lastName":"Baggins"}' 'localhost:9200/school/_doc/10?pretty'
Best way to use the Elasticsearch using REST format and rest client like postman but still if you want to use the curl, you can use this online curl builder to avoid the syntax issues.