I may just go to the command line with curl - that seems to work
without a hitch.
Also, for anyone looking at creating a POST body, the code I posted
previously for converting a hash to POST body can be completely
replaced with {hash}.to_param. In my case:
body = input.to_paramGood luck - On May 26, 9:28 am, BenH <[email protected]> wrote: > I've written a small piece of code that is supposed to place an order > in a order handling system. get, put and delete functions are working > great but I cannot get post to function at all... the error I get back > from the code below is 400 (bad request). I think it has something to > do with the headers but I don't know how to get more info out of this. > Is there a problem with the way I am handling the post method? > > Thank you for your input!! > Ben > > ####### > > class User < ActiveResource::Base > self.site = "http://www.a_restful_api.com/api/"; > self.element_name = "user" > self.format = :json > > def place_order(input) > # ... handle input constraints. input is a hash > > # parse the hash to end up with "key=value&key=value&key=value" > body = "" > input.keys.sort.each do |k| > if k == input.keys.sort.first > body += %Q{#{k}=#{input[k]}} > else > body += %Q{&#{k}=#{input[k]}} > end > end > > user = User.find_by_remote_id(self.user_id) > header ||= make_header(user) # this function returns a hash with > the various elements in the header > > method_string = "#{self.class.prefix}#{self.class.collection_name}/ > #{self.user_id}/store/orders" > resp = connection.post(method_string,body,header) > end --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
