Add option to ignore stdin data

http: error: Request body (from stdin or a file) and request data (key=value) cannot be mixed.

This error is rather cryptic. I’m writing a shell script to interact with a rest API, and I’m doing this:

http --output subnet --pretty format --form post "${URLHOST}subnets" "cidr=${cidr}" "name=${name}" "description=${name}" "availabilityZoneId=${az}" "networkId=${VPCid}" "$ACCESSKEY" "$SECRETKEY" "$ACCOUNTID" "_providerId=aws" "_regionId=${REGION}"

Which produces (when preceded by ‘echo’ a command that works perfectly well. However, this version gives the error in the subject.

Am I being stupid, or is this something else?

FYI: The result of the above is as followed (sanitized slightly)

http --output subnet --pretty format --form post https://test.grid.domain.com/subnets cidr=10.124.33.128/25 name=Load_balancers description=Load_balancers availabilityZoneId=us-east-1c networkId=vpc-31433e7e x-gridauth-accesskey:DOYOUNEEDTOKNOW x-gridauth-secretaccesskey:WHATISWITHALLTHEQUESTIONS x-gridauth-accountid:11223344556677 _providerId=aws _regionId=us-east-1

[sgoll]

For future reference, there now is a CLI argument --ignore-stdin that can be used to explicitly tell HTTPie that request data (key=value) should be preferred over request body (from stdin).

http --ignore-stdin http://… lorem=ipsum dolor=sit

Cf. https://httpie.org/docs#redirected-input

[jakubroztocil]

I see, the problem is that in the loop context HTTPie inherits its STDIN (which is redirected).

You should be able to work it around by changing HTTPie’s STDIN back to the terminal input (< /dev/tty):

cat file | while read line; do 
    http POST example.org  a="$line" < /dev/tty
done