uhm... I may be wrong but.... request.restful accepts the args as a normal page, that is a application/x-www-form-urlencoded or a multipart/form-data . with curl would be something like curl -d name=blablabla -d otherparameter=blablabla http://theurl
On Friday, April 19, 2013 1:24:03 AM UTC+2, Brent Zeiben wrote: > > Hi, > I am using a python script to organize some data and try to send it into > web2py via the @request.restful() api. In the python script the text is > mainly input from a free form text field. ( I believe some Unicode > characters are in there as well, however I remove everything that is ord > 128 and above.) > > My problem arises when the text contains an ampersand (&) and probably > anything that isn't allowed in without the form encoding. I thought python > json would escape the character some way but it does not seem to. > > I am trying to use json to transfer this data to web2py via the curl > command within python. > > Python Script > > import json > import subprocess > > > url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/testing/default/api/people.json' > data = {"name":"My Full Name","biography":"Some simple information\n > about me & blah blah blah"} > > > jsondata = json.dumps(data) > result = subprocess.Popen(['curl', > '--user','username:password', > '-d', > jsondata, > url], stderr=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] > > > > > > The web2py relevant parts > > db.py > > db.define_table('people', > Field('name','string',length=200,requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > Field('biography','text')) > > > default.py > > > auth.settings.allow_basic_login=True > @auth.requires_login() > @request.restful() > def api(): > response.view = 'generic.' + request.extension > def POST(table_name,**vars): > if table_name == 'people': > return db.people.validate_and_insert(**vars) > else: > raise HTTP(400) > return locals() > > > So when the python script sends the data web2py complains because of the > escaping issue with the & in the data. I was doing some searching and > thought that changing the Content Type in the curl command to > application/json would help with this but then web2py has nothing in the > vars variable. > > Thank you, > Brent > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
