Body and data sources

POST, PATCH and PUT requests require a data source to insert and/or update resources from, and expects this data in the body of the request.

POST using JSON text

curl -X POST -d '
{
    "Name": "Karen Smith",
    "DateOfEmployment": "2013-01-23T00:00:00",
    "Salary": 45000
}
' 'https://myapp.com/api/employee' -H 'Authorization: apikey mykey' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'