Objects sent to JIRA via cURL in JSON format have line breaks stripped
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
When using cURL to retrieve JSON packets for JIRA, the output of cURL has no line breaks. This makes them very hard to read.
Cause
This is caused by cURL defaulting to ASCII mode, which does not respect line breaks.
Resolution
To resolve this, explicitly throw the
--data-binaryargument, like so:1curl -D- -u user:pass -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @ngr-ver-XX.test http://jiraserver:8080/rest/api/latest/issue
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