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I am using the following curl command to upload data to CouchDB:

 curl -d @abcd.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://@localhost:5984/database/_bulk_docs

The file contains multiple JSON documents and is valid JSON.

The response I get is: {"error":"bad_request","reason":"Request body must be a JSON object"}

I have studied other answers to similar questions but don't seem to be able to find the reason for the error.

(The file does not have a 'BOM' as far as I can see.)

I am running on Windows 10.

I have tried using the RESTClient addon in Firefox with the same result.

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  • Please, show the example content of abcd.json file. Are the contained jsons supposed to be separated documents in couchDB? Commented Feb 9, 2022 at 18:55

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To solve this I have found that one needs an added structure in the input file, nl. an additional:

 { "docs":

before the first "[" of the first JSON document in the file(naturally with closing "}") then everything works.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

This post jogged my thinking.

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