adding multiple new Locations?

Hi @shaisachs . Thanks so much for this and for demo'ing it at Netroots a couple of years ago :) .

I'm stuck, and I know you've left NGPVAN ( :( for us, :) for you ), and I've sent the same question into the official NGPVAN dev support folks. Figure you know the VAN API better than anyone. And once I figure out the answer, I'll do a PR against your doc here.

So, I want to add a bunch of new Locations, using curl and json. I'm able to add a new location, like this:

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" \
       --user ""my_app_user_ID":"4e7c"|1" \
     -X POST  \
--data '{"name": "JOETestLocation3",
 "address": {
   "addressLine1": "123 main st",
   "city": "Irvine",
   "stateOrProvince": "CA",
   "zipOrPostalCode": "92620"
 }
}' \
https://api.securevan.com/v4//locations/findOrCreate

but not able to add multiple locations, like this:

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" \
       --user ""my_app_user_ID":"4e7c"|1" \
     -X POST  \
--data '{
“locations”: [
"name":"Blue Gum Park",
"address":{"addressLine1":"14 Aberdeen","city":"Irvine","stateOrProvince":"CA"}},{"name":"Brywood Park","address":  {"addressLine1":"15 Westwood","city":"Irvine","stateOrProvince":"CA"}},
{"name":"Canyon Park","address":  {"addressLine1":"6 Canyon Park","city":"Irvine","stateOrProvince":"CA"}},
{"name":"Carrotwood Park","address":  {"addressLine1":"60 Bennington","city":"Irvine","stateOrProvince":"CA"}},
{"name":"Chaparral Park","address":  {"addressLine1":"19032 Turtle Rock Drive","city":"Irvine","stateOrProvince":"CA"}}] }’  \
https://api.securevan.com/v4//locations/findOrCreate

Admittedly, my JSON game is not the strongest. But when I try variations of the above, I get this error message:

"errors": [
    {
      "code": "INVALID_PARAMETER",
      "text": "The body of the request is null or cannot be parsed."
    }
  ]

So I guess my question is - what is the correct format for uploading multiple Location records in JSON into VAN so that they are parsed correctly?

I've been poring over the VAN dev docs at https://developers.ngpvan.com/van-api#van and I'll be searching on Stack Exchange for clues as well.

Thanks so much for any help.

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