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frapes_247370
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Feb 12, 2016

API RESTful - Creation a new rule by curl

Hi people, i'm trying to create a rule and define it, by API restful v11.5.3 with this sintax:   curl -k -u admin:pass-H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://IP/mgmt/tm/ltm/rule -d '...
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  • VernonWells's avatar
    VernonWells
    Feb 12, 2016

    There are two problems. Firstly, you have double-quotes in the rule definition that aren't escaped. The shell will divide arguments on those quotes. Secondly, there is a syntax error. The use pool ... command should be simply pool .... The following works:

     

    curl -k -u 'admin:pass' -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X POST https://host/mgmt/tm/ltm/rule -d \
  '{ "name" : "RuleUpload", "apiAnonymous" : "when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with \"/portalCiccio\" } { pool dinonnapapera } elseif { [HTTP::uri] starts_with \"/scriptCiccio\" } { pool dinonnapapera } else { TCP::close } }" }'

     

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Greg_Jewett
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May 16, 2019

All..

If you are dumbfounded with the error "", then you are not alone. I just spent the last couple of days yelling at my computer and the F5 API.

 

If you are using "Requests: HTTP for Humans" (https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/) module/library within Python to perform http requests to the API, and you are sending JSON objects as part of the data, then they must use the syntax:

NOT:

Example:

Perform a "Config-Sync" with the API, and using "data=postData" you will receive

{u'errorStack': [], u'message': u'Found invalid JSON body in the request.', u'code': 400, u'apiError': 1}

 

Changing that to "json=postData", removes the error as it properly encodes the json data into the request.

Hope this helps!