Hello. Can I get some advice on how to “put” to vault using curl post with data from a local json file?
I have been trying to post secrets to vault and I have searched Google, StackOverFlow, API docs and still stuck after N hours. I am new to curl so my word choice may be precise please excuse 
- “url-encoded” request works (as in the “Here is an example of writing a secret using cURL:” example in the api-docs)
curl --request POST -H "X-Vault-Token:{token}" \
--data '{"data":{"username": "hello", "password": "world"}}' \
https://vault..../test-secret
However, I don’t want to do this nor I haven’t found a good way to “format” a local json file into such format "'{"data":{ [key-value pairs from json file] }}'"
So I am trying post with data but I am facing either parsing or no-data error. For example
-
failed to parse JSON input: invalid character '-' in numeric literalerror
curl -v -X POST https://vault..../test-secret \
-H "X-Vault-Token:{token}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-F "data=@temp.json" --trace-ascii /dev/stdout
I am setting --trace-ascii /dev/stdout so I can see what data is being sent and it appears data is being sent but I am getting parsing error and Content-Type: application/octect-stream which is not expected
0070: Content-Type: application/octet-stream
0098:
009a: { "username": "hello", "password": "world" }
...
<= Recv data, 84 bytes (0x54)
0000: {"errors":["failed to parse JSON input: invalid character '-' in
0040: numeric literal"]}.
{"errors":["failed to parse JSON input: invalid character '-' in numeric literal"]}
-
no data providederror
curl -v -X POST https://vault..../test-secret \
-H "X-Vault-Token:{token}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d @temp.json --trace-ascii /dev/stdout
this give “no data provided” error but it appears dat at is being sent?
=> Send data, 44 bytes (0x2c)
0000: { "username": "hello", "password": "world" }
== Info: We are completely uploaded and fine
<= Recv header, 13 bytes (0xd)
0000: HTTP/2 400
<= Recv header, 25 bytes (0x19)
0000: cache-control: no-store
<= Recv header, 32 bytes (0x20)
0000: content-type: application/json
<= Recv header, 20 bytes (0x14)
0000: content-length: 32
<= Recv header, 37 bytes (0x25)
0000: date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:00:40 GMT
<= Recv header, 2 bytes (0x2)
0000:
<= Recv data, 32 bytes (0x20)
0000: {"errors":["no data provided"]}.
{"errors":["no data provided"]}
