Re: [Agavi-Users] questions about REST

[David Zülke]

On 12.03.2008, at 14:28, David Zülke wrote:

Am 11.03.2008 um 07:06 schrieb Simon Cornelius P Umacob:

I have a couple of questions about Agavi's REST support:


format and is read in Agavi using getParameter().  However, if I send
the data using HTTP PUT, the data is treated as an uploaded file and
cannot be accessed via getParamaeter().  Is there an easy way to
access the variables without parsing the uploaded file?

- With HTTP POST, data is sent using variable1=value1&variable2=value2

A good question. We should maybe consider adding an option that maps
uploaded content to parameters if the Content-Type is application/x-
www-form-urlencoded.

FYI, this is now implemented in 1.0, see http://trac.agavi.org/ticket/1016

- David

For now, subclass AgaviWebRequest and overwrite initialize():

public function initialize(AgaviContext $context, array $parameters =
array()) {
  parent::initialize($context, $parameters);

  $rd = $this->getRequestData();
  if($this->getMethod() == 'create' && $rd->getHeader('Content-Type')
== 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded') {
    $data = $rd->getFile($this->getParameter('http_put_file_name'));
    // decode data and set parameters
    $rd->removeFile($this->getParameter('http_put_file_name'));
  }
}

Note that right now, custom HTTP method mappings are not set back as
parameters on the request object, so you cannot read them without code
duplication. See ticket http://trac.agavi.org/ticket/724 (and also 
http://trac.agavi.org/ticket/725)
. I'll fix those tonight.

- Agavi "maps" executeCreate() with HTTP PUT and executeWrite() with
HTTP POST.  If I use these functions in a REST context, it seems that

I understand that there is no one way to implement REST, there seems
to be a general agreement that update operations should be mapped to
HTTP PUT while create operations should be mapped to HTTP POST.  I
have no qualms with the function names, except that I'll soon be
sharing my code with other devs who may have qualms about it.  Is
there a way to configure our own mapping?

it makes more sense if they are mapped the other way around. Although

Absolutely:

<parameter name="method_names">
  <parameter name="PUT">write</parameter>
  <parameter name="POST">create</parameter>
</parameter>

for the <request> in factories.xml.

Hope that helps,


David

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