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Creating a group using cURL with REST api

justind — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:03:20 GMT

Please I'm new to Alfresco and I tried to create a group using curl on my command line terminal. Here's the code:curl -uadmin:rockstar -X PUT { "newGroup" : ["authorityType" : "GROUP", "shortName" : "COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400LVL", "fullName" : "COMPUTER_SCIENCE_400_LEVEL", "displayName" : "COMPUTER_SCIEN

Re: Creating a group using cURL with REST api

mehe — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:33:39 GMT

You would have to put -d in front of your JSON Data and put the data in single quotes. I usually declare the content type -H 'Content-Type: application/json' so

curl -uadmin:rockstar -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{ "newGroup" :.......}' ....

should do it

Re: Creating a group using cURL with REST api

justind — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:38:39 GMT

Sorry for the late reply, Thanks. This really helped!