How to test REST service from CURL

Here is the command to test the REST from curl


curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"firstName": "Harish"} ' http://ussumsdsoaapp04:7001/hellorest/

If you need to pass the request payload from a file then use @filenamme 

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d @hello.json http://ussumsdsoaapp04:7001/hellorest/

Content of  hello.json 

{"firstName": "Harish"}