Hi, everyone, I have come across something interesting.
1) User opens up a page that lists all his/her subscriptions 2) Each subscription is a url and a parameter at the end (ie 'id=3325') 3) User decides to edit one of the subscriptions. He/she clicks on one with an id of 3389 (hence the url will point to "http://lginsurance.com.au/subscriptions/edit?id=3389";) 4) My controller, sub edit gets called, it works out some hidden values and returns a web form/ 5) The web form contains the following: a) 'name' = Text box for subscription alias b) 'nominated_agent_code' = Text box for nominated agent code c) 'id' = Hidden value which has the id of the current subscription in question 5.5) The url is now "http://lginsurance.com.au/subscriptions/edit?id=3389"; 6) The user makes the necessary changes to name and/or nominated agent code on the web form and clicks 'submit' 6.5) The Catalyst debug is as follows. Observe that the 'id' appears twice! [info] *** Request 3 (0.176/s) [24288] [Wed Apr 29 20:57:20 2009] *** [debug] Query Parameters are: .-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------. | Parameter | Value | +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | id | 3389 | '-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------' [debug] Body Parameters are: .-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------. | Parameter | Value | +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | id | 3389 | | name | fire and theft-main concourse level | | submit | submit | | nominated_agent_id | 4 | '-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------' [debug] "POST" request for "users/subscriptions/update" from "123.243.50.59" [debug] Found sessionid "d11552045b04ccd6734582a4220d47398d022325" in cookie [debug] Restored session "d11552045b04ccd6734582a4220d47398d022325" 7) my controller, sub edit gets called. This time, I extract all the values I got from the web form using $c->request->params->{ <attribute-name> }; where attribute-name would be 'name','nominated_agent_code' and 'id'. When I used data dumper to print out the value I got for 'id' , I observed that 'id' is made out of an array of two values: '3389' and '3389' (yet again!). Guys, if the user is clicking on the submit button in step 6, that's a POST request. So, why is the a 'query parameters' block present? From my understanding, a query_parameter block is for GET requests. I know that to get the 'id' I want which is from the body parameters, I should use $c->request->body_parameters{'id'} but in doing so, it looks like I am avoiding the problem and its cause rather than understand what it is about. Help! _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
