curl: (3) [globbing] nested brace in column 189 when sending PUT request to Google Sheets API

Question

I am trying to write to a Google Spreadsheet using Google Sheet API v4. The usage about the API is listed here

I made a curl request that looks like the following

curl -v\
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ya29.GlxSB9-EiDh1Mn2EqhCslHvkaGyOX-P4_yDR4MXOt-WdHYQdFfwUJNMfljAFzZfS-YrrATUU2MAKj3R4BcMyOSw55KjJOC0EekE_qusj8GXIxFF3uaGZxGMdlB0IlQ' \
-X PUT \
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1mHrPXQILuprO4NdqTgrVKlGazvvzgCFqIphGdsmptD8/values/Sheet1\!A1:D5\?valueInputOption\='{"range": "Sheet1!A1:D5","majorDimension": "ROWS","values": [["Item", "Cost", "Stocked", "Ship Date"]

When I run this, I get the following error

curl: (3) [globbing] nested brace in column 189

I do not understand what I am doing wrong and appreciate any help here

Answer 1

I figured out, my use of API was incorrect. The right use of API is

curl -v \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ya29.GlxSB9-EiDh1Mn2EqhCslHvkaGyOX-P4_yDR4MXOt-WdHYQdFfwUJNMfljAFzZfS-YrrATUU2MAKj3R4BcMyOSw55KjJOC0EekE_qusj8GXIxFF3uaGZxGMdlB0IlQ' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-X PUT \
-d '{"range": "Sheet1!A1:D5","majorDimension": "ROWS","values": [["Item", "Cost", "Stocked", "Ship Date"], ["Wheel", "$20.50", "4", "3/1/2016"], ["Door", "$15", "2", "3/15/2016"], ["Engine", "$100", "1", "30/20/2016"], ["Totals", "=SUM(B2:B4)", "=SUM(C2:C4)", "=MAX(D2:D4)"]]}' \
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1mHrPXQILuprO4NdqTgrVKlGazvvzgCFqIphGdsmptD8/values/Sheet1!A1:D5?valueInputOption=USER_ENTERED

The important points to note are
- valueInputOption=USER_ENTERED. I had to tell the API to parse the input so USER_ENTERED was a valid value as per the documentation
- The use of -H 'Content-Type: application/json' was needed since the payload was a valid json content.
- Sending the payload using -d option.

Once corrected, I was able to hit the API and get the response

*   Trying 2607:f8b0:400a:803::200a...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to sheets.googleapis.com (2607:f8b0:400a:803::200a) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
  CApath: none
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google LLC; CN=*.googleapis.com
*  start date: Jul  2 19:21:00 2019 GMT
*  expire date: Sep 24 18:57:00 2019 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "sheets.googleapis.com" matched cert's "*.googleapis.com"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Google Trust Services; CN=Google Internet Authority G3
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x7fc02e006600)
> PUT /v4/spreadsheets/1mHrPXQILuprO4NdqTgrVKlGazvvzgCFqIphGdsmptD8/values/Sheet1!A1:D5?valueInputOption=USER_ENTERED HTTP/2
> Host: sheets.googleapis.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> Authorization: Bearer ya29.GlxSB9-EiDh1Mn2EqhCslHvkaGyOX-P4_yDR4MXOt-WdHYQdFfwUJNMfljAFzZfS-YrrATUU2MAKj3R4BcMyOSw55KjJOC0EekE_qusj8GXIxFF3uaGZxGMdlB0IlQ
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 272
>
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS updated)!
* We are completely uploaded and fine
< HTTP/2 200
< content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
< vary: X-Origin
< vary: Referer
< vary: Origin,Accept-Encoding
< date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 19:23:15 GMT
< server: ESF
< cache-control: private
< x-xss-protection: 0
< x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
< alt-svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="46,43,39"
< accept-ranges: none
<
{
  "spreadsheetId": "1mHrPXQILuprO4NdqTgrVKlGazvvzgCFqIphGdsmptD8",
  "updatedRange": "Sheet1!A1:D5",
  "updatedRows": 5,
  "updatedColumns": 4,
  "updatedCells": 20
}
* Connection #0 to host sheets.googleapis.com left intact

Answer 2

I am getting the following error

curl: (3) nested brace in URL position 8:

{findAllTransactionFile {id fileName}}}'

Well, that's probably the same as your server message "POST body sent invalid JSON.", right?

Now, when you fix your json data by using double-quotes on the outside and escaping the inner double-quotes, then it should work:

curl -v -d "{\"query\": \"{findAllTransactionFile {id fileName}}\"}" -H "Content-Type:application/json" http://localhost:8080/apis/graphql