What Is A Request Body?

A request body is data you send to a service or system to be processed. This can be end-user data or instructions to be interpreted by the system.

When it comes to APIs [→], request data is sent as part of a POST, PATCH, UPDATE, etc. These are requests that receive data to be added, partially or fully updated respectively.

Below is a sample POST CURL request with a request body.

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01: curl -X 'POST' \
02:   'https://petstore3.swagger.io/api/v3/pet' \
03:   -H 'accept: application/json' \
04:   -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
05:   -d '{
06:   "id": 10,
07:   "name": "doggie",
08:   "category": {
09:     "id": 1,
10:     "name": "Dogs"
11:   },
12:   "photoUrls": [
13:     "string"
14:   ],
15:   "tags": [
16:     {
17:       "id": 0,
18:       "name": "string"
19:     }
20:   ],
21:   "status": "available"
22: }'

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