https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-use-json-file-as-input-in-a-POST-call-to-the-REST-API/m-p/468905#M80683 <P>Im trying to update a role in our environment via the Splunk REST API and Im using POSTMAN like app with an input file which is holding several changes in parameters for the specified role.<BR />The post call looks like this:</P> <PRE><CODE>POST <A href="https://localhost:8089/services/authorization/roles/rl_user" target="test_blank">https://localhost:8089/services/authorization/roles/rl_user</A> Authorization: Bearer xxx &lt; ...\input.txt </CODE></PRE> <P>And this is the content of the input file:</P> <PRE><CODE>srchIndexesAllowed=main;srchJobsQuota=3;srchDiskQuota=300 </CODE></PRE> <P>Even though this is working quite fine, editing the input file manually like this is really unpractical.<BR />What I would like to know is whether there is an option to first call the API to export the role in atom(xml)/json format.<BR />Take that export, update the values I need and then import the file again via a POST API call to change the params?</P> <P>I`ve been playing with this for quite some time but no luck.<BR />Any advise is appreciated.<BR />Thanks.</P> Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:04:01 GMT tomaskucerak 2020-06-07T00:04:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-use-json-file-as-input-in-a-POST-call-to-the-REST-API/m-p/468905#M80683 <P>Im trying to update a role in our environment via the Splunk REST API and Im using POSTMAN like app with an input file which is holding several changes in parameters for the specified role.<BR />The post call looks like this:</P> <PRE><CODE>POST <A href="https://localhost:8089/services/authorization/roles/rl_user" target="test_blank">https://localhost:8089/services/authorization/roles/rl_user</A> Authorization: Bearer xxx &lt; ...\input.txt </CODE></PRE> <P>And this is the content of the input file:</P> <PRE><CODE>srchIndexesAllowed=main;srchJobsQuota=3;srchDiskQuota=300 </CODE></PRE> <P>Even though this is working quite fine, editing the input file manually like this is really unpractical.<BR />What I would like to know is whether there is an option to first call the API to export the role in atom(xml)/json format.<BR />Take that export, update the values I need and then import the file again via a POST API call to change the params?</P> <P>I`ve been playing with this for quite some time but no luck.<BR />Any advise is appreciated.<BR />Thanks.</P> Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:04:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-use-json-file-as-input-in-a-POST-call-to-the-REST-API/m-p/468905#M80683 tomaskucerak 2020-06-07T00:04:01Z