On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 11:11:48 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: > > On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 3:23:59 PM UTC-8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> response from web2py controller? web2py returns bytes. It is up to you to >> put utf8 or ascii in there. web2y does not care. >> >> >> > Okay, I overrode the Content-Type header to remove the "charset: utf-8", > and I set enforce_ascii in the simplejson.dumps(), but I still have 50 or > so single-char objects rather than 1 hierarchical object. I also tried > applying str() before the dumps(), without any improvement. Since I'm > using FF's network tab, I can't see if there is any difference in the > packets, only what FF decoded the packets as. >
Any suggestions here? > > This is a Ubuntu system (a VM); can I use tcpdump on localhost traffic? > I'm using the Rocket server on the web2py side; the fake-source from the > Grafana people is using a js server. (I'm not sure if Grafana itself is > using a js server, but it does have an internal server to keep track of > settings and such.) > I'm going to guess a node.js stack. Seems to use sqlite for the settings DB, although that probably isn't important to my problem. /dps > On Monday, 28 November 2016 01:08:20 UTC-6, Dave S wrote: >>> >>> Any suggestions on how to force the response to ASCII instead of UFT-8? >>> >>> /dps >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 11:36:27 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 11:09:27 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:38:57 PM UTC-8, Niphlod wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> if the request comes in either as a POST or as a PUT it has a body >>>>>> (since all examples report a faily nested query structure, I'd say it's >>>>>> the >>>>>> case vs a simple querystring in a GET) >>>>>> >>>>>> If the body carries the correct content-encoding, it's automatically >>>>>> parsed into request.vars. You can still read the raw body as usual in >>>>>> request.body . >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Thanks, that helped me to know what to look for. I got the Grafana >>>>> stuff installed, it does the fake-json-source ok, and with FF developer >>>>> tools I'm seeing the traffic to my nascent endpoint. >>>>> >>>>> When configuring the datasource URL, it does a GET to the base URL >>>>> (the one just for "checking in", return an HTTP 200; I put a little >>>>> status >>>>> json into the response body just for grins). When you configure a panel >>>>> (the youtube videos they provide are important here) and select a metric >>>>> , >>>>> it will do an OPTIONS and then a POST. >>>>> >>>>> I had put some CORS headers into my response, because FF is seeing me >>>>> return data when it accesses the Gravana server. [Sidebar question: >>>>> does >>>>> the book cover anything about valid CORS? I didn't find it if it's >>>>> there; >>>>> fortunately, there were some good posts in the GG archive. The book does >>>>> have little bits about providing protection against against black-hat >>>>> CORS.] The request to me seems to come from the client JS -- since it >>>>> shows in the network panel -- but FF gives CORS errors if I don't have >>>>> the >>>>> headers. >>>>> >>>>> So now I just have to make a good response to the metric requests. >>>>> >>>>> /dps >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I may have to force the response to ASCII, and I don't remember how to >>>> do that. My JSON is currently being decoded as 36 or so objects, each a >>>> single character, while the fake source response is being decoded as a >>>> single compound object (per the FF devtool network tab), and the Grafana >>>> display is saying "datapoints is undefined". >>>> >>>> My content header line says "application/json;encoding/utf-8", theirs >>>> says only "application/json". >>>> >>>> /dps >>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 10:50:23 PM UTC+1, Dave S wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm trying to implement a simple json endpoint for Grafana. Does >>>>>>> anyone here have experience with doing this? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <URL: >>>>>>> https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-datasource/blob/master/README.md >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm looking at using @service.json, but I'm not sure how to get the >>>>>>> body on a /query. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (The sample fake-simple-json-datasource is a server written in >>>>>>> javascript! It doesn't make clear if the /query is a POST or a GET, >>>>>>> and if >>>>>>> it's a GET how the body gets done.) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> /dps >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- 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.
