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. >> > -- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
