Exec-Binding sending a curl

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Hey,
I want to send, a working curl command, with exec. The problem seems the double quotes. I tried:

Thing exec:command:Test  [command="curl -X PUT http://192.168.178.42:51500/characteristics --header "Content-Type:Application/json" --header "authorization: 031-45-154" --data "{ \"characteristics\": [{ \"aid\": 20, \"iid\": 10, \"value\": 0}] }", autorun=true]

I´m getting error
2022-05-25 22:36:04.622 [WARN ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Configuration model ‘Neutstart.things’ has errors, therefore ignoring it: [11,102]: missing ‘]’ at ‘Content-Type’

[11,126]: mismatched input ‘/’ expecting ‘:’

[11,127]: no viable alternative at input ‘json’

[11,168]: mismatched input ‘" --data "’ expecting ‘:’

[11,180]: mismatched input ‘’ expecting ‘}’

[11,249]: no viable alternative at input ‘autorun’

Can someone help me?
Thx joe

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You either need to escape the double quotes inside the outer quotes around the whole command, or you need to use single quotes on the outside instead of double quotes.

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Thanks for your answer. I tried to make single quotes outside.

Thing exec:command:Test  [command='curl -X PUT http://192.168.178.42:51500/characteristics --header "Content-Type:Application/json" --header "authorization: 031-45-154" --data "{ \"characteristics\": [{ \"aid\": 20, \"iid\": 10, \"value\": 0}]', autorun=true]

getting following error:
Configuration model ‘Neutstart.things’ has errors, therefore ignoring it: [11,35]: Character array is missing “e” notation exponential mark.

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Looking into the posted command double quotes at the end of --data part seems to be missing.

In case you have the command working on the command line I would wrap it into a shell script and just call that shell script as command. You do not need to worry about escaping the single/double quotes then as long as you already have a working command line.