I was successful using the “try it” feature of the api docs to perform a mutation using variables. Now I’m trying to convert that syntax into a curl command. Even when putting data in a file (then referencing with @filename) in the curl command, the amount of escaping and quoting is driving me bon…

Hey @lmatter ! I just played around with this, and you can use the following cURL command to populate an item with values from a variable. However, there is still a lot of escaping involved, since the column values need to be passed as a JSON string. Are you solely using cURL to call the API? curl …

Curl example of a mutation with variables

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lmatter (Larry Matter) August 8, 2019, 10:12pm 2

Sorry, more specifically what I’m looking for is a mutation create_item with column_values (using variables). I can actually get a new item created, but the column_values are never set.

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