Why isn't my POST request saving the data?

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I’m sending a POST request to my endpoint like this:

curl -X POST https://directus.myapp.com/items/recipes \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer MY_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "name": "My Recipe"
  }'

I get a 200 OK response, but the data I sent doesn’t seem to be saved—I’m just getting the default values back every time. Any idea what could be causing this?

2

I realized I need to include the Content-Type: application/json header in my request. Without it, Directus doesn’t know I’m sending JSON, so it just treats the body as empty.

Here’s the corrected curl command:

curl -X POST https://directus.myapp.com/items/recipes \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "My Recipe"
  }'

That fixed it! Now my data gets processed and saved properly.