Shorthand for -H Content-Type:application/json

[kikito]

Writing all that every time is one of my grips with curl. Maybe crul could offer an alternative to that repetitiveness.

I am thinking either a special action (curl post.json ...) or a flag (maybe repurposing -j for that, and creating a format flag, i.e. --format json)

[porras]

Thanks!

Several ideas I had in mind related to this (which I also find annoying):

• --content-type json. not much shorter, but much nicer
• Autodetection from extension when using a file (@data.json, @data.xml, etc.), which is my 90% usecase
• Real autodetection is probably possible (try to parse as JSON and XML, if it doesn't error, it must be that format)
• Coupling with formatters (90% of the time, the format you send is the format you expect), so -j/--json or -x/--xml might set both Content-Type and formatter

☁️⚡️ <- brain storm

What do you think?

[kikito]

I have thought about this and I think coupling with the formatter is harmless enough. So +1 to making -j automatically set the header.

[jamiecook]

Coming here in 2022 to say I still think this is a good idea