Uploading CSV data file with curl

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Hi all,

I am trying to upload data via CURL as specified in the dev docs - 1.9.2. Creating and updating objects. My request is as follows:

curl -d @file._name.csv “http://myHostName/api/26/dataElements” -X POST “Content-Type: application/csv” -u username:password

**The response I got was **

{“httpStatus”:“Unsupported Media Type”,“httpStatusCode”:415,“status”:“ERROR”,“message”:“Content type ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’ not supported”}curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Content-Type

I have tried content type text/csv as well but got similar results.

My questions

  1. Is my endpoint http://myHostName/api/26/dataElements the correct one for uploading data values via API?

  2. Is the request format correct?

  3. Is there something I need to set on my DHIS instance to make it support such operations?

Thanks for your help.

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Regards,

Leke Seweje

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Hi Leke, are you sending METADATA or DATA VALUES?

If the latter, you need to use dataValueSets:

https://docs.dhis2.org/master/en/developer/html/webapi_data_values.html#webapi_sending_data_values

Knut

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Knut Staring

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