I'm on the latest version from the repo,
2.10.0-beta+timestamp.2014.10.16.15.58.50,
though I had this issue on the mainline 2.9.11 as well.
Henry
On Friday, October 24, 2014 12:37:15 AM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>
> what web2py version are you on ?
>
> On Friday, October 24, 2014 3:01:23 AM UTC+2, Henry Nguyen wrote:
>>
>> 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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