ok. got it. usually in APIs you don't post an array, you post an object.
automatic parsing works only for objects, not for arrays.
On Friday, October 24, 2014 8:08:02 PM UTC+2, Henry Nguyen wrote:
>
> 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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