Magento 2 Customer update API using CURL

Question

I am able to get create, view and delete using curl to a Magento 2.1 site. However, update seems to be not working. In this example I have already grabbed my token:

curl -X POST "http://www.russellalbin.com/index.php/rest/V1/integration/admin/token" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"username":"someusername", "password":"somepassword"}'

That returns my Bearer that is used below ( masked of course for this posting )

curl -X "PUT" "http://www.russellalbin.com/rest/V1/customers/2" \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer MASKEDCODEqoopucla3gt3bh" \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -H "Accept: application/json" \
 -d '{"customer": {"id": 2,"dob": "string","firstname": "updatedFn","lastname": "UpdatedLN","middlename": "updatedMN",},}'

I have a customer with the ID of 2. This request returns the following message pretty much no matter what I use for my json

{"message":"Decoding error."}

Is this still an issue with the version 2.1? I think I read that in 2.0.x it was causing issues but I never validated the complaints until now.

Answer 1

I think you should use Postman for Restful API, It very easy for test api

Go to postman docs click here!

Answer 2

Bad JSON was to blame Here is a good version of JSON that did work with the above example

{"customer": {"id": 2,"dob": "1972-08-20 00:00:00","firstname": "updatedFn","lastname": "UpdatedLN","middlename": "updatedMN", "email": "[email protected]", "website_id":1}}