POST data to any endpoint via REST API

curl -v -X POST -u "user:password" --header "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://<host>:<port>/<endpoint>' -d @test.json

You can change the Content-Type based on your required type and supported by endpoint.

Type application 

================

application/javascript

application/octet-stream

application/ogg

application/pdf

application/xhtml+xml

application/x-shockwave-flash

application/json

application/ld+json

application/xml

application/zip

Type Audio

==========

audio/mpeg

audio/x-ms-wma

audio/vnd.rn-realaudio

audio/x-wav

Type image

==========

image/gif

image/jpeg

image/png

image/tiff

image/vnd.microsoft.icon

image/x-icon

image/vnd.djvu

image/svg+xml

Encode Decode error in python : UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0

Error desc:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0:
                    ordinal not in range(128)

This type of error comes when some special character is not in range of selected encoding type.

Solution :

Find the default encoding type of python.
             python -c 'import sys; print(sys.getdefaultencoding())'
             o/p : ascii

We need to change the encoding type and try with different type of encoding. e.g.

latin-1
utf-8
utf-16-be


Create a file sitecustomize.py under this location : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sitecustomize.py

echo "import sys; sys.setdefaultencoding('latin-1')" > sitecustomize.py


Compile the python script and check the encoding type is changed by below command.
python -m py_compile sitecustomize.py

PYTHONPATH=".:$PYTHONPATH" python -c 'import sys; print(sys.getdefaultencoding())'

o/p : latin-1