Rest api - create customer

Question

I follow this Magento guide to work with Magento API REST (New Learner): http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/get-started/order-tutorial/order-create-customer.html

In this step I try run this curl line to create a new customer:

curl -X Post "http://domain/api/rest/default/V1/customers"\
    -H "Content-Type:application/json"\
    -d '{"username":"example", "password":"example"}'

and get "curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host".

Also I want to ask, can I call this request with Postman?

Answer 1

You can try this command:

token=$(curl -X Post "http://domain/rest/V1/integration/admin/token"\
-H "Content-Type:application/json"\
-d '{"username":"<admin_user>", "password":"<admin_password>"}')\;
curl -X POST "http://domain/rest/default/V1/customers"\
-H "Content-Type:application/json"\
-H "Authorization:Bearer "$token\
-d '{"customer":{"email":"[email protected]", "firstname": "Example", "lastname": "Example", "id_card": "123456", "tos": "Yes"},"password":"12345678"}'

Explain: according to the official document you provided,

token=$(curl -X Post "http://domain/rest/V1/integration/admin/token"\
-H "Content-Type:application/json"\
-d '{"username":"<admin_user>", "password":"<admin_password>"}');

is getting admin token, and then store the result to a variable called $token. And then

curl -X POST "http://domain/rest/default/V1/customers"\
-H "Content-Type:application/json"\
-H "Authorization:Bearer "$token\
-d '{"customer":{"email":"[email protected]", "firstname": "Example", "lastname": "Example"},"password":"12345678"}'

is creating customer part.

I've tested this on M2.1.7, but should be more or less the same on M2.2.