Niphlod,
That does not appear to be the case, either for request.restful() requests
or regular controller requests. For example, consider this controller
method:
def test():
logger.debug(request.env.content_type)
logger.debug(request.post_vars)
logger.debug(request.body.read())
return
With the request data as a JSON array of objects, such as:
[{"id":1, "is_read":true}]
I get the following logs:
2014-10-23 17:51:47,488 DEBUG test.py test():14 : application/json
2014-10-23 17:51:47,490 DEBUG test.py test():15 : <Storage {}>
2014-10-23 17:51:47,490 DEBUG test.py test():16 : [{"id":1, "is_read":true}]
With the data as a JSON object, such as
{"id":1, "is_read":true}
I get the following logs:
2014-10-23 17:54:46,468 DEBUG test.py test():14 : application/json
2014-10-23 17:54:46,469 DEBUG test.py test():15 : <Storage {u'is_read': True
, u'id': 1}>
2014-10-23 17:54:46,470 DEBUG test.py test():16 : {"id":1, "is_read":true}
Note that request data is not parsed into request.post_vars. This would
make sense to me; since request.post_vars is a Storage object which
inherits from a Python dictionary, there would be no dictionary key to
store the array value, no?
Henry
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:16:00 AM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>
> if the content-type of the POST request is application/json, "mylist"
> would actually be yet parsed into request.post_vars (i.e. you can skip
> body.read())
>
> On Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:24:09 AM UTC+2, Henry Nguyen wrote:
>>
>> For posterity's sake, I was able to retrieve the array in the request
>> body by using:
>>
>> import json
>> my_list = json.loads(request.body.read())
>>
>> and then iterating through the list items just like any other list. This
>> was taken from http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04#request
>> under request.body.
>>
>> Thanks for letting me know that request.restful() wouldn't parse it
>> automatically, Niphlod.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>> On Monday, October 13, 2014 12:25:54 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>>>
>>> you have to code your own methods.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, October 12, 2014 11:32:23 PM UTC+2, Henry Nguyen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a function in my controller decorated with the
>>>> @request.restful() decorator. I would like to be able to accept a JSON
>>>> array of objects,
>>>>
>>>> [{"id": 1, "new_value": 1},{"id": 2, "new_value": 2}]
>>>>
>>>> , on a POST, PUT, or DELETE. For example, I'd like the client to be
>>>> able to update a series of values on one request, as opposed to having to
>>>> submit multiple requests for each individual update. However, the args and
>>>> vars parameters being passed to the methods are empty when a request is
>>>> sent with the JSON payload above. Specifically, args only gets populated
>>>> from URL args and vars only get populated if the array is accompanied by a
>>>> key, such as in:
>>>>
>>>> {"update": [{"id": 1, "new_value": 1},{"id": 2, "new_value": 2}]}
>>>>
>>>> While it certainly isn't too much trouble to include that initial key, I
>>>> was wondering if there's any way to retrieve the JSON objects from the
>>>> request without having to specify the key so that I could pass a simple
>>>> array instead?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you ahead of time for any help.
>>>>
>>>
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