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Executing a `curl` command with `ExecOperations` in Gradle. What is the best way to get the response values from it? specifically the json response body and http status code

do you need the exact status code, or is just ok/not-ok enough?

curl from the past few years has a --fail-with-body option

so you can get both body (from output) and ok/not-ok (from exit code)

currently doing:

```val standardOut = ByteArrayOutputStream()
exec.exec {
    // by default this would run in the sample app's project dir - we want the root project dir
    workingDir(rootProjectDirectory)
    val spec = this
    spec.commandLine(
        "curl",
        "-X",
        "POST",
        "-H",
        "Authorization: APIKey $dataTheoremApiKey",
        "--data",
        "\"\"",
        "<https://someUrl.com/v1/upload_init>"
    )
    standardOutput = standardOut
}
val output = standardOut.toString()
logger.lifecycle(output)
val json = output.substring(
    startIndex = output.indexOf("{ ")
        .also { startIndex ->
            if (startIndex == -1) {
                error("startIndex was not found")
            }
        },
    endIndex = output.indexOf(" }")
        .also { endIndex ->
            if (endIndex == -1) {
                error("endIndex was not found")
            }
        }
        // inclusive
        .let { endIndex -> endIndex + 2 },
)```
but seems a bit obnoxious lol

I agree, but the proxy at our company always behaves weird when we use jvm gradle code to make the network calls. from the command line (curl) it always just works