[fw-general] setPost in Zend_Controller_Request_Http

[Christoph Löffler]

Hi, i use the Code

        // Process non-standard Content-Types
        $rawBody = $request->getRawBody();
        if (!empty($rawBody)) {
            if (false !== ($contentType =
$request->getHeader('Content-Type'))) {
                if (strstr($contentType, 'application/xml') ||
                    strstr($contentType, 'text/xml')) {
                    require_once 'Zend/Config/Xml.php';
                    $config = new Zend_Config_Xml($rawBody);
                    $request->setPost($config->toArray());
                } elseif (strstr($contentType, 'application/json')) {
                    require_once 'Zend/Json.php';
                    $request->setPost(Zend_Json::decode($rawBody));
                }
            }
        }

in a Controller plugin which handles different formats of POST data

Why it is not allowed that one value is NULL? This is the JSON data:


{
    "account_id":"9119",
    "ikz":"123456789",
    "account":"em...@provider.com",
    "email":"em...@provider.com",
    "anrede":"Frau",
    "vorname":"Daniela",
    "nachname":"Musterfrau",
    "ka_vorwahl":"0016480698",
    "ka_telefon":"5496",
    "ka_fax":"6546",
    "gesperrt":"0",
    "angelegt_von":"admin",
    "angelegt_am":"2009-09-29T00:00:00",
    "update_passwd":"2011-07-15T00:00:00",
    "notice_passwd":null,
    "bearbeitet_von":"admin",
    "bearbeitet_am":"2009-09-29T00:00:00"
}

I get an exception:

Zend_Controller_Exception: (0) Invalid value passed to setPost(); must be
either array of values or key/value pair
which is clear when i look at the code of Zend_Controller_Request_Http

But why?
Is there a reason, why it is not nice to have NULL values in the POST data?

Greetings
Chris