Sample Check Definition JSON doesn't work

[poy]

When we try to register the check using the sample JSON:

{
  "check": {
    "id": "api",
    "name": "HTTP API on port 5000",
    "http": "http://localhost:5000/health",
    "interval": "10s",
    "timeout": "1s"
  }
}

We get back the following error:

curl -v -X PUT http://localhost:8500/v1/agent/check/register -d @/tmp/consul2.json
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7fb222003a00
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7fb222003a00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to localhost port 8500 (#0)
*   Trying ::1...
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8500 (#0)
> PUT /v1/agent/check/register HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> Host: localhost:8500
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 153
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
* upload completely sent off: 153 out of 153 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:57:12 GMT
< Content-Length: 18
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
Missing check name

I presume that the problem lies with casing in the JSON.

[ryanbreen]

Looks like that's being PUT with a content-type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you change your curl command to send application/json, does it work better?

[poy]

Same results.

We got it to work with:

{
  "ID": "mem3",
  "Name": "Memory utilization",
  "HTTP": "http://localhost:8080/health",
  "Interval": "5s",
  "Timeout": "1s"
}

NOTE: This is without the -H "Content-Type: application/json" in the curl command

[armon]

@apoydence The sample format you used is for config files, but it looks like you guys figured out the correct API format. Closing!

[cohenaj194]

my check worked after I removed /health from "HTTP": "http://localhost:8080/health",