trying to create page with api: message "Expecting value: line 0 column 1 (char 0)" UPDATE

[francis vila]

Here's my command:

curl -u fvila:"password" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data "@data1.json" --url http://localhost:8090/confluence/rest/api/content/

I'm was getting this response from the api:

 %  Total % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time Time     Time    Current
                              Dload   Upload Total Spent   Left     Speed
100 34604 0 34604    0     0   389k     0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 392k
Expecting value: line 3 column 1 (char 6)

Now using the Confluence password, instead of a generated token, it's as follows:

 % Total % Received   % Xferd Average Speed  Time   Time   Time      Current 
                               Dload  Upload Total  Spent   Left      Speed
100 827 100   697    100 130   18473   3445 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 22351
Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

(100% received and 100% Xferd, but error on line 1 column 1 instead of line 3 column 1 )

here's the content of data1.json:

{
"type":"page",
"title":"new page",
"space":{"key":"TC"},
"ancestors": [ {"id": "360452" }],
"body":"<p>This is <br/> a new page</p>"
}

When I remove the `| python -mjson.tool`, I get a full http page response, including:

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[francis vila]

I've now solved my problem by using the atlassian-python-api with python, explained here:

https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api

I still don't know why it didn't work with curl...

I don't know whether to accept this answer as good, as it doesn't really answer the question as I asked it, and may not be useful for people who are specifically looking to make the curl command work, and had the same problem as I did.