Post JSON From a File

Use a file when the request body is too large or too important to type as shorthand on the command line. Restish reads stdin, decodes the structured document, and sends it as the request body.

restish post api.rest.sh/post < payload.json

Example payload.json:

{"name":"Alice","enabled":true}

The /post fixture echoes the parsed body so you can verify what was sent.

Variant with explicit content type:

restish post -c json api.rest.sh/post < payload.json

The explicit -c json form is useful when stdin comes from a source without a clear extension or when a script should make the request encoding obvious. For small bodies, shorthand is usually faster.

Related: Input and Shorthand.