unable to update a service entry using register api

[Kunal Pariani]

Hello,

I seem to be getting this weird error while trying to update the address of an existing service with consul. Any ideas ? My JSON looks 

root@LB-demo:~# curl -X POST --data config.json http://localhost:8500/v1/catalog/register

Request decode failed: invalid character 'c' looking for beginning of value

root@LB-demo:~#

root@LB-demo:~#

root@LB-demo:~# cat config.json {

  "services": [

    {

      "id": "service1",

      "name": "service1",

      "address": "172.17.0.5"

    }

  ]

}

Also is there a way to specify this address ("address": "172.17.0.5") while specifying the service definition in my docker-compose.yml file ?

Thanks

[Michael Daffin]

Your problem is you are sending a post request with 'config.json' as the body not the contents of that file. I believe in order to tell curl to read the file prefix it with an @

curl -X POST --data @config.json http://localhost:8500/v1/catalog/register

However you may hit another problem. Recently I was trying to do something similar, register a check remotely using catalog/register end point and although the request worked and the check registered with a few seconds the agent anti entropy kick in and removed the check. I think you will find a similar issue as with the IP address reverting to what the agent was configured with.

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[James Phillips]

Hi guys,

You'll want to register services using the agent API - https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/agent.html#agent_service_register. The agent will take care of syncing it up with the catalog for you. In Consul the source of truth about service registrations is with the agents. Hope that helps!

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[Kunal Pariani]

Thanks for this.

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