On Friday, January 24, 2014 6:10:13 AM UTC-8, greaneym wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
Thanks for the update ... the next person searching for the answer will be
glad to see this.
/dps
> 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!
>>
>>
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