Rest and POST method

> Hi,
>
> I continu my experiments with seaside-rest and I have a new problem. I can
> post XML data to the seaside server with the post method. I can detect the
> arrival of the data with the postXML event method.
>
> postXML
>     "I receive XML data with the POST method"
>     <POST>
>     <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
>     <Path: '/postxml'>
>
>     Transcript show: 'XML data detected'.
>
>
>
> But... how to read the content of the request ?

> 2011/4/4 Olivier Auverlot<[hidden email]>:
>> Philippe, thank for your response.
>>
>> ok, that works for the content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded but I
>> need to receive xml data. With another content type like text/plain or
>> text/xml, the data seems to be not parsed. postFields or rawBody are empty.
> I would expect #postFields to be empty since it can't be parsed as
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data. Which server
> do you use in which version? Do you have dump of the request?
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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> Hi Philippe,
>
> I work with the Seaside One-Click image and the HTTP server is Comanche.
>
> *******************************************************
> First test: with form data
> *******************************************************
>
> -- the postForm method --------------------------------
>
> postForm
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'>
> <Path: '/postform'>
>
>    Transcript show: self requestContext request postFields.
>
> -- REQUEST --------------------------------
>
> POST /MonAppRest/postform HTTP/1.1
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> user=olivier&id=23
>
> -- RESPONSE --------------------------------
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:13:01 GMT
> Connection: close
> Server: KomHttpServer/7.1.3 (Mac OS)
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 0
>
> -- Result  --------------------------------
> a WARequestFields('id'->'23' 'user'->'olivier')
>
> *******************************************************
> Second test: with XML data
> *******************************************************
>
> -- the postXML method --------------------------------
>
> postXML
>    "detection de l'envoi de données XML"
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
> <Path: '/postxml'>
>
>    self requestContext inspect.
>
>    Transcript show: 'postXML'.
>
> -- REQUEST --------------------------------
>
> POST /MonAppRest/postxml HTTP/1.1
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <agent>
> <nom>auverlot</nom>
> </agent>
>
> -- RESPONSE --------------------------------
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:08:01 GMT
> Connection: close
> Server: KomHttpServer/7.1.3 (Mac OS)
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 0
>
> -- Result  --------------------------------
> a WARequestFields()
>
> WARequestFields is empty but it seems logical because that is not a form
> that is submited. I tried to read data thru rawBody but it is empty also.
>
> For my project, I need to exchange XML data and probably LDIF data. If there
> are no solutions, I will be forced to use another programming solution (perl
> or java) :-( D'OH!!!.
>
> Do you think that it's possible to implement a mecanism to access of the
> body of a request send with a POST method ?

> Hi Philippe,
>
> I work with the Seaside One-Click image and the HTTP server is Comanche.
>
> *******************************************************
> First test: with form data
> *******************************************************
>
> -- the postForm method --------------------------------
>
> postForm
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'>
> <Path: '/postform'>
>
>    Transcript show: self requestContext request postFields.
>
> -- REQUEST --------------------------------
>
> POST /MonAppRest/postform HTTP/1.1
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> user=olivier&id=23
>
> -- RESPONSE --------------------------------
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:13:01 GMT
> Connection: close
> Server: KomHttpServer/7.1.3 (Mac OS)
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 0
>
> -- Result  --------------------------------
> a WARequestFields('id'->'23' 'user'->'olivier')
>
> *******************************************************
> Second test: with XML data
> *******************************************************
>
> -- the postXML method --------------------------------
>
> postXML
>    "detection de l'envoi de données XML"
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
> <Path: '/postxml'>
>
>    self requestContext inspect.

> Probably you can try rawBody. It is used by SqueakSource3 in
> a put request, where postFields are naturally  not available.:
>
> putMap: fileName ofProject: projectName
> <PUT>
> <Path: '/{projectName}/{fileName}.mcm'>
> "…"
> | data |
> data := self requestContext request rawBody.
> "…"
>
>

> 2011/4/5 Olivier Auverlot<[hidden email]>:
>> Le 05/04/11 09:55, Philippe Marschall a écrit :
>>> It should already work;-)
>>> Can you set a break point in WAComancheRequestConverter>>
>>> #requestBodyFor: and check why the decoding doesn't happen? It could
>>> be because the Content-Length is missing in that case.
>> Ok. It seem that the request is recognized as a POST method but
>> HttpRequest>>#rawPostContents returns '' when the datatype is "text/xml".
> Why? Does it check Content-Length?
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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> From: Olivier Auverlot <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Rest and POST method
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I work with the Seaside One-Click image and the HTTP server is Comanche.
>
> *******************************************************
> First test: with form data
> *******************************************************
>
> -- the postForm method --------------------------------
>
> postForm
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'>
> <Path: '/postform'>
>
>     Transcript show: self requestContext request postFields.
>
> -- REQUEST --------------------------------
>
> POST /MonAppRest/postform HTTP/1.1
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> user=olivier&id=23
>
> -- RESPONSE --------------------------------
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:13:01 GMT
> Connection: close
> Server: KomHttpServer/7.1.3 (Mac OS)
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 0
>
> -- Result  --------------------------------
> a WARequestFields('id'->'23' 'user'->'olivier')
>
> *******************************************************
> Second test: with XML data
> *******************************************************
>
> -- the postXML method --------------------------------
>
> postXML
>     "detection de l'envoi de données XML"
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
> <Path: '/postxml'>
>
>     self requestContext inspect.
>
>     Transcript show: 'postXML'.
>
> -- REQUEST --------------------------------
>
> POST /MonAppRest/postxml HTTP/1.1
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <agent>
> <nom>auverlot</nom>
> </agent>
>
> -- RESPONSE --------------------------------
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:08:01 GMT
> Connection: close
> Server: KomHttpServer/7.1.3 (Mac OS)
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 0
>
> -- Result  --------------------------------
> a WARequestFields()
>
> WARequestFields is empty but it seems logical because that is not a form
> that is submited. I tried to read data thru rawBody but it is empty also.
>
> For my project, I need to exchange XML data and probably LDIF data. If
> there are no solutions, I will be forced to use another programming
> solution (perl or java) :-( D'OH!!!.
>
> Do you think that it's possible to implement a mecanism to access of the
> body of a request send with a POST method ?
>
> Thank for your help.
>
> Best regards
> Olivier ;-)

> 2011/4/5 Olivier Auverlot<[hidden email]>:
>> Le 05/04/11 09:55, Philippe Marschall a écrit :
>>> It should already work;-)
>>> Can you set a break point in WAComancheRequestConverter>>
>>> #requestBodyFor: and check why the decoding doesn't happen? It could
>>> be because the Content-Length is missing in that case.
>> Ok. It seem that the request is recognized as a POST method but
>> HttpRequest>>#rawPostContents returns '' when the datatype is "text/xml".
> Why? Does it check Content-Length?
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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> 2011/4/6 Olivier Auverlot<[hidden email]>:
>> Philippe,
>>
>> I supose that the guilty is HttpRequest>>#rawPostFields.
>>
>> If #isPostRequest answers true and the content type is different of
>>   'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', it answers always ''.
> Ah, that explains it. I guess you can just remove the check
>
>   self contentType = MIMEDocument contentTypeFormData
>
> I created an issue [1]
>
>   [1] http://code.google.com/p/seaside/issues/detail?id=648
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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> I have modified the code with the following modifications :
>
> HttpRequest>>#rawPostFields
>    ^self propertyAt: #rawPostFields ifAbsentPut: [
>        (self isPostRequest) ifTrue: [
>            stream next: self contentLength
>        ] ifFalse: [
>            ''
>        ].
>    ]
>
> Now, it seems ok. I can send GET or POST requests and send XML data. For
> read this data, I use the rawBody propertie.
>
> For example:
>
> postXML
> <POST>
> <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
> <Path: '/postxml'>
>    Transcript show: self requestContext request rawBody.
>
> Now, I must find a cool tool for parsing XML...

> 2011/4/6 Olivier Auverlot<[hidden email]>:
>> I have modified the code with the following modifications :
>>
>> HttpRequest>>#rawPostFields
>>     ^self propertyAt: #rawPostFields ifAbsentPut: [
>>         (self isPostRequest) ifTrue: [
>>             stream next: self contentLength
>>         ] ifFalse: [
>>             ''
>>         ].
>>     ]
>>
>> Now, it seems ok. I can send GET or POST requests and send XML data. For
>> read this data, I use the rawBody propertie.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> postXML
>> <POST>
>> <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
>> <Path: '/postxml'>
>>     Transcript show: self requestContext request rawBody.
>>
>> Now, I must find a cool tool for parsing XML...
> Magritte-XML ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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> Le 06/04/11 14:38, Philippe Marschall a écrit :
>> 2011/4/6 Olivier Auverlot<[hidden email]>:
>>> I have modified the code with the following modifications :
>>>
>>> HttpRequest>>#rawPostFields
>>>    ^self propertyAt: #rawPostFields ifAbsentPut: [
>>>        (self isPostRequest) ifTrue: [
>>>            stream next: self contentLength
>>>        ] ifFalse: [
>>>            ''
>>>        ].
>>>    ]
>>>
>>> Now, it seems ok. I can send GET or POST requests and send XML data. For
>>> read this data, I use the rawBody propertie.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> postXML
>>> <POST>
>>> <Consumes: 'text/xml'>
>>> <Path: '/postxml'>
>>>    Transcript show: self requestContext request rawBody.
>>>
>>> Now, I must find a cool tool for parsing XML...
>> Magritte-XML ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
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