Dear Symfony2 developers,
I have some thoughts about Request object.
Currently Request object is initializing itself from PHP global variables.
However, this makes it hard to re-use the same controllers for REST
request handling. As the $request attribute of Request object is only
populated on a form post.
The typical html post request looks like this:
Request line
Content-type: application/x-*www-form*-*urlencoded*
*
*
*key=val&key2=val2*
*
*
*While a typical json REST post looks or should look like:*
*
*
*Request line*
*Content-type: application/json*
*
*
*{*
* key: val,*
* key2: val2*
*}*
*
*
*I am not gonna show an xml example here, but you get the idea.*
*
*
*So, from looking at all of the above, we could see, that there needs*
*to be something that knows how to transform a request body string*
*(be it a urlencoded key/value pairs or a json object) into a php array,*
*that will become Request::$request.*
*
*
*We could then register those transformers based on request content*
*type and provice Symfony2 default transformers so that basic REST*
*requests can be handled by the same controllers as regular HTML*
*ones.*
*
*
*We could also provide ability to overload those transformers and add*
*more of user's transformers, in case they want to go full REST and*
*use HATEOAS in their API, or simply in case they don't want to use*
*smart defaults.*
*
*
*I personally would also like to make the Request object less smart*
*and keep it similar to the Response one, where all the data is provided*
*from the outside and only data-specific operations live inside the class.*
*I would like therefore the Kernel to be responsible for request population*
*but there might be gotchas, that I am not aware of.*
*
*
*Thoughts?*
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*Bulat Shakirzyanov* | Software Alchemist
*a: *about.me/avalanche123
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