Reproduce Ajax request with cURL - ajax

Question

I'm trying to reproduce an Ajax request with cURL but it's always failing.
The server is not seing the sent data (my_data in the examples below) at all.
curl \
--request POST \
--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
--header 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' \
--url 'http://example.org/ajax_call' \
--data '{"my_data":"data_value"}'
I also tried:
curl \
--request POST \
--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
--header 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' \
--url 'http://example.org/ajax_call' \
--data "my_data":"data_value"
And finally:
curl \
--request POST \
--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
--header 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' \
--url 'http://example.org/ajax_call' \
-F "my_data=data_value"
The data is never caught by the server (Symfony in my case). I guess there is an issue with XMLHttpRequest formatting in cURL and I'm wondering if what I'm trying to do is even possible (meaning proper formatting of XMLHttpRequest object by cURL)
I crawled the net for hours and haven't found anything with data parameters so far.
Thanks for your help
EDIT
Solution found thanks to people in comment section was:
curl -v \
--header 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' \
'http://example.org/ajax_call' \
-d my_data=data_value

Answer 1

All your cURL requests are valid and can be processed. In Symfony app controller, you can access to sent JSON object by method getContent() of Request object:
/**
* #Route("/ajax_call", name="some_action")
*/
public function someAction(Request $request)
{
if ('' !== $content = $request->getContent()) {
$data = json_decode($content);
// some action…
}
return new Response(null, Response::HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
}
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