REST API for Splunk Dashboard update giving error for complex XML

[shirlal]

I have a complex Splunk Dashboard that needs to be updated through REST API.
The Dashboard was created manually, so the Dashboard XML is very large with many graphs,charts and complex search queries.

I am able to do a GET of the dashboard contents.

But when I try to update dashboard via POST and pass entire XML as eai:data, I get  the error:
Unparsable URI-encoded request data .

When I try to pass the xml as file (request.xml) for Curl  :
curl -ku username:pwd -X POST -H "Content-Type:text/xml"  -d 'name=testdashboard' -d 'eai:data=@request.xml' https://my_splunk_url:8089/servicesNS/username/appspace/data/ui/views

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<messages>
<msg type="ERROR">Error parsing XML on line 1: Start tag expected, '&lt;' not found
</msg>
</messages>
</response>

In the request.xml have tried to replace <form> with &lt;form&gt;  still no luck.

Can someone please advise how to update large complex XML through REST API?

[kamlesh_vaghela · Accepted solution]

@shirlal 

After many experiments in this week I think this shell script will help you.

#!/bin/sh
data=`cat request.xml`
param=`echo "eai:data=$data"`

res=`curl -ku admin:admin123 https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/search/data/ui/views/ -d 'name=testdashboard' --data-urlencode "$param"`
echo $res

Thanks
KV
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[shirlal]

@kamlesh_vaghela 

Thank you this solution worked perfectly !