The example curl calls in the QIE Management API documentation are valid for Linux and Mac environments. Users have 3 options for using the curl utility on a Windows environment for making calls to the QIE Management API.
1) Windows command-line
The curl utility is included on all versions of Windows as of build 17063 (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/team-blog/2017/20171219-tar-and-curl-come-to-windows).
Here's a sample call:
curl -H "apiToken:abc123" --request POST http://qieserver:9999/channel/start -d "{\"zoneName\":\"myZoneName\",\"channelName\":\"myChannelName\"}"
NOTES:
- must wrap entire -d payload in double quotes
- must use escaped double quotes for JSON key/value pairs inside the -d payload
2) Cygwin
The syntax for making calls to the curl utility in cygwin are the same as described above for Windows command-line. You will need to download and install Cygwin.
3) Windows Powershell
Invoking curl from a Windows Powershell is actually an alias to Powershell's Invoke-WebRequest utility. This utility requires a different syntax for calls and returns a different payload.
Here's a sample call:
curl -H @{"apiToken"="abc123"} -Method POST http://qieserver:9999/channel/start -Body '{"zoneName":"myZoneName","channelName":"myChannelName"}' | Select-Object -Expand RawContent
NOTES:
- must specify -Method POST instead of --request POST
- must specify -Body instead of -d
- must wrap entire -Body payload in single quotes
- must use double quotes for JSON key/value pairs inside the -Body payload
- must pipe to Select-Object -Expand RawContent to get the full payload response
Also know that you can call the Windows curl command-line utility (outlined in step #1 above) from Powershell by invoking curl.exe instead of just curl.