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timbo_8_2_29918
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Sep 12, 2018

Rest APi Update iRule

Hi There   I have been researching this all day and cannot seem to get a solution. I am trying to "Update" an iRUle using the Rest API. Im using powershell and am getting the below error:   Invok...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Sep 19, 2018

Most likely due to the special characters not escaped properly (depending on where you run) or LF (0x0A) not written in the literal \n (0x5C 0x6E) in a JSON body. The following curl request worked for me.

 cat sat
{
  "apiAnonymous":" this is a test\n
when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {\n
  log local0. \"Hello World\"\n
}"
}
 curl -sku admin:admin https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/rule/satoshi -X PATCH -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d@sat
{
    "apiAnonymous": " this is a test\nwhen CLIENT_ACCEPTED {\n  log local0. \"Hello World\"\n}",
    "fullPath": "satoshi",
    "generation": 986,
    "kind": "tm:ltm:rule:rulestate",
    "name": "satoshi",
    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/rule/satoshi?ver=13.1.0"
}