One other thing: I set up a form post option, so I was able to set up the output to echo the input and the + signs are still there. It only seems to be when I put those + signs into the datastore that they become spaces or disappear.
Haaaalp! (please?) On Aug 4, 9:28 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed a strange bug in my application, which has an AJAX > callback for saving form (textarea) content into a blob in the > database. The problem is that while everything else saves fine, any > '+' characters disappear. > > I've added an alert to the AJAX save routine so I can see that, before > the save, the '+' is still in the string, and then the meat of the > callback is this: > > http_request.open('post', xmlUrl, true); > http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www- > form-urlencoded"); > http_request.send('file_name=' + escape(file_name) + > '&file_content=' + escape(ta_content)); > > the "ta_content" variable is the TextArea content that I just verified > with the javascript alert. > > This posts against a save routine which does the following: > > class Save(webapp.RequestHandler): > def post(self): > #fn = self.request.get('file_name') > fc = self.request.get('file_content') > > newfile = db.GqlQuery('SELECT * FROM Posts WHERE [yadda yadda]).get > () > if newfile is not None: > newfile.content = db.Blob(str(fc)) > else: > newfile = Posts(content = db.Blob(str(fc)), > content_type = ct) > newfile.put() > > self.response.out.write('<response>ok</response>') > > And the DB entity is as follows: > > class Posts(db.Model): > content = db.BlobProperty() > created = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True) > #content2 = db.StringProperty() > > So my question is, where are my '+' signs disappearing and how can I > stop this? I'm encoding my data on the post. I'm converting to a > string before storing to a blob on the AppEngine side. I even > temporarily added a string to the entity so that I could actually see > the data as it's stored in the datastore and guess what? I can see my > <,>,&,'," and everything else. Just no +. > > Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here, or does AppEngine just hate > me, plus signs or both? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
