Perfect. Thanks Dan. Kind Regards, Myf White
*Email:* [email protected] On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Dan Book <[email protected]> wrote: > JSON gives you the option to send more straightforward and possibly nested > hashes and arrays. JSON body is a relatively common method of making API > requests so there's no reason to avoid it really. The only benefit of > multipart/form-data is that it's sent natively by HTML forms so doesn't > require javascript (or some other language) to construct the request, but > that's not really important for an API. > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Myf White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm using a javascript library which has two ways of sending POST requests >> >> 1. using javascripts FormData, content-type: multipart/form-data >> 2. or as JSON within the body, content-type: application/json >> >> From the Mojolicious side they both work - I can get a parameter 'foo': >> >> 1. with $c->param('foo') >> 2. with $c->req->json->{foo} >> >> From the javascript side there is no advantage to either way, they both >> work as needed. From the Mojolicious side, Is there any advantage to using >> either way? >> >> The system is currently set up just for use by browser, but there is an >> idea to develop an API in the future; would that make either of the options >> more attractive? >> >> Any advice on the "right" way to do this would be very much appreciated. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Myf White >> >> *Email:* [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mojolicious" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mojolicious" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mojolicious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
