< was unexpected at this time. from curl command line when posting input data as an xml to rest service
Actually, I don't know what is the case,but I got an error said < is unexpected this timewhen I tried the following command (on windows):
curl -u admin:password -XPOST -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d '<namespace><prefix>newWorkspace</prefix><uri>http://geoserver.org</uri></namespace>' http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/namespacesThen I changed the single quote into double quotes and it worked.
I had no luck with double-quotes, however escaping < and > with ^ worked for me.
So your curl becomes..
curl -d "{\"input1\": \"^<xml^>^</xml^>\", \"input2\": \"^<xml^>^</xml^>\"}" -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" http://localhost/rtygies/Service1.svc/rest/receivedata1