CURL not working when POSTING json to my Web Service
Did you try erichelgeson's suggestion?
The correct curl method is
curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X POST -d '{"cityName":"NewYork", "countryCode":"IT", "postalCode": "00166"}' http://localhost:8080/ComuneUtenti/api/cityNotice the single quotes around the json payload.
To see what's really going on you can use the echo command.
$ echo {"hello":"world"}{hello:world}$ echo '{"hello":"world"}'{"hello":"world"}The shell is eating the quotes around your fields.
What version of grails 2.3 are you using?Grails 2.3.8 had a bug where you could not post to rest services.
I believe this was the checked in here.
https://github.com/grails/grails-core/commit/c050212fa0992f5b2d62c8e63795e4278fb2c3f4