ZnClient is your friend (it is a builder) :
ZnClient new
url: 'http://some/thing';
formAt: #foo put: #bar;
formAt: 'baz' put: 'quux';
post.
HTH,
Sven
PS: Check out the 'accessing request' protocol for more ways to construct your
request. Also, the response is kept in the object: #post returns something
called the contents, but you can add ; response or ; isSuccess at the end.
Check out the class comment or unit tests.
On 02 Oct 2014, at 02:17, Benjamin Pollack <benja...@bitquabit.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> This is probably me missing something, but: for an upcoming
> presentation, I wanted to find the tersest way to demonstrate making an
> HTTP POST. Something equivalent to Python's
>
> requests.post('http://some/thing', data={'foo': 'bar', 'baz':
> 'quux'})
>
> The closest I could come up with for Pharo was
>
> ZnEasy post: 'http://some/thing' data:
> (ZnApplicationFormUrlEncodedEntity withAll: {
> 'foo' -> 'bar'.
> 'baz' -> 'quux'.
> } asDictionary)
>
> I just wanted to verify that is, in fact, the shortest way to do this.
> I feel as if I'm almost certainly missing a utility method around the
> ZnApplicationFormUrlEncodedEntity bit, and, especially for demos,
> terseness matters. (It's obviously trivial to write a utility method if
> this *is* the shortest way to do this, but then people in the audience
> won't be able to execute the resulting code snippet without the utility
> method.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Benjamin
>
