Magento 2 – How to Create Customer Using REST API

Do this tutorial and you will see - https://alankent.me/2015/07/24/creating-a-new-rest-web-service-in-magento-2/

Specifically follow closely where the array of float is passed through in the body of the HTTP request.

app/code/AlanKent/CalculatorWebService/etc/webapi.xml

<!-- Example: curl http://127.0.0.1/index.php/rest/V1/calculator/add/1/2 -->
<route url="/V1/calculator/add/:num1/:num2" method="GET">
    <service class="AlanKent\CalculatorWebService\Api\CalculatorInterface" method="add"/>
    <resources>
        <resource ref="anonymous"/>
    </resources>
</route>

<!-- Example: curl -d '{"nums":[1.1,2.2,3.3]}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1/index.php/rest/V1/calculator/sum -->
<route url="/V1/calculator/sum" method="POST">
    <service class="AlanKent\CalculatorWebService\Api\CalculatorInterface" method="sum"/>
    <resources>
        <resource ref="anonymous"/>
    </resources>
</route>

Create new customer

$userData = array("username" => "admin", "password" => "admin123");
$ch = curl_init("http://magento213/index.php/rest/V1/integration/admin/token");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($userData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json", "Content-Lenght: " . strlen(json_encode($userData))));

$token = curl_exec($ch);


$customerData = [
    'customer' => [
        "email" => "user@example.com",
        "firstname" => "John",
        "lastname" => "Doe",
        "storeId" => 1,
        "websiteId" => 1
    ],
    "password" => "Demo1234"
];

$ch = curl_init("http://magento213/index.php/rest/V1/customers");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($customerData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json", "Authorization: Bearer " . json_decode($token)));

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$result = json_decode($result, 1);
echo '<pre>';print_r($result);

//For update

$customerData = [
    'customer' => [
        'id' => 10,
        "email" => "user@example.com",
        "firstname" => "John2",
        "lastname" => "Doe2",
        "storeId" => 1,
        "websiteId" => 1
    ],
    "password" => "Demo1234"
];

$ch = curl_init("http://magento213/index.php/rest/V1/customers/10");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($customerData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json", "Authorization: Bearer " . json_decode($token)));

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$result = json_decode($result, 1);
echo '<pre>';print_r($result);

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