I found what I needed by reading more about requests, http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html
and this reading this link, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2667509/curl-alternative-in-python and by reading more about StringIO. On Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:24:32 PM UTC-6, greaneym wrote: > > Hi, > > I am learning about using xml files in web2py and have some questions. > > This controller allows me to view an xml file, > > from gluon.tools import Expose > import osdef showtree3(): > expath = '/Users/mgreaney/examples/ex_01.xml' > return dict(files=Expose(expath)) > > This allows me to view the xml file in a view > with index containing {{=files}}, but I want to collect the xml file as > raw POST data. > > I found this info on the "old web2py blog": > > ontroller code: > def indexxml(): # changed name from index to indexxml > response.headers['content-type'] = 'text/xml' > xml = request.body.read() # retrieve the raw POST data > if len(xml) == 0: > xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><root>no post > data</root>' > return response.render(dict(xml=XML(xml))) > > # View code: > {{=xml}} > > and then it says to try using curl to call the controller like this, > > curl --data '<?xml version="1.0"><root>my xml data</root>' > http://example.com/app/controller/index > > and when I use curl from the command line like this, > curl --data '<?xml version="1.0"><root>my xml data</root>' > http://127.0.0.0:8000:/myapp/static/ex_01.xml > > I can see the contents of ex_01.xml > > but if I run this from the command line, > curl --data '<?xml version="1.0"><root>my xml data</root>' > http://127.0.0.0:8000:/myapp/maketree/indexxml > > I get the output of the view "index.html" for the maketree controller, > which just has some brief text content and not any output from > indexxml.html. > > I don't understand how the indexxml in the example above gets the xml file > as input? > > How do I use request.body and request.body.read()? > > Is there a way to get raw POST data from an xml file that is in my static > directory > using request.body? > > Also, can you use curl from inside a controller? I get a syntax error if I > try this. > > Can I use a modified version of the end info at this post? > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/web2py/curl/web2py/efrSxAT9AnU/NlGub7WvlfAJ > Thanks! > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.
