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From the requests I see in our logs, it appears you're running into trouble with quoting of arguments when you invoke curl. This results in a garbled request to the server -- it is receiving a URL like "/track_time -d ..." (that is, the URL has trailing junk that should instead be translated by curl into the POST body).
You shouldn't need any quotes around the URL, because it doesn't contain special characters such as ampersand or question mark.
You will need quotes around the POST data (the parameter value after the -d parameter) because it contains whitespace (as well as quoted strings, etc.).
curl also allows you to specify a filename prepended with the at symbol, like:
-d @my_data.txt
and it will read the contents of the file my_data.txt
You can try placing your JSON in such a text file, which will let you side-step any quoting issues at the command line.
If this general advice doesn't clear things up, please email me the exact command line you're using and I'll figure out what bit of punctuation isn't quite doing what we intend.
Brett Bender
Examples say to add tracking time do something like this:
curl https://app.liquidplanner.com/api/workspaces/:id/tasks/:id/track_time \ -d '{ work: 4, low: "1.5d", high: "3d" }'
I have tried different versions of this:
"http://..../track_time -d '{ work: 4, member_id: 85969, activity_id=36473 }'"
But I have not gotten it to work. What am I doing wrong?