[web2py] POST with web2py RESTful API

[Tiago Rosa]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to expose some of my app's data through a RESTful API and
I'm having some trouble using the POST method.

In this post (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g5hxq/
web2py_trunk_has_a_new_restful_api_that_writes_db/) and video Massimo
introduced web2py's RESTful API with examples, so I will use them here
to try to clarify my doubt:

Here is the model:
 db.define_table('person',Field('name'),Field('birthdate','date'))
 
db.define_table('dog',Field('name'),Field('owner',db.person),Field('info','text'))
 if not db(db.person).count():
     from gluon.contrib.populate import populate
     populate(db.person,100)
     populate(db.dog,100)

And here is the controller:
 def manage_dog():
     def GET(id):
         dog = db.dog(id)
         return dog.as_dict() if person else None
     def POST(owner,name,info):
         return
db.dog.validate_and_insert(owner=owner,name=name,info=info)
     def DELETE(dog)
         del db.dog(dog)
         return dict()
     def PUSH(dog,info):
         db.dog[dog].update_record(info=info)
         return dict()
     return locals()

My question is very simple: how should my HTTP POST request be
formatted for it to work and properly insert dog data into the db,
when using XML? How should the XML in the request body be like?

Thanks in advance.