How to POST with Curl to configSubmit Jenkins page
I struggled with this for several hours. Ultimately, this answer to a similar question got me unstuck.
It seems like Jenkins is expecting form data that has a field called json. The curl command that ultimately worked for me was
curl -X POST -F 'json={"displayName":"name","description":"a short description"}' \ http://localhost/job/playground/30/configSubmit
@Pete answer is correct however it suffices running:
curl -F 'json={"displayName":"name","description":"a short description"}' \ http://localhost/job/playground/30/configSubmit
A bit more explanation:
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-Foption in curl is used to post a form so-X POSTnot necessary. json=is needed and equivalent to settingContent-Type: application/json.--data-urlencode(as used in the question) when used it overrides-F- so it can't be used here.
@ebeezer issue comes from attempting to set only "description" while it is necessary to set both "description" and "displayName" for the request to succeed.