[Seaside] WAUrl class>>#decodePercent:

[jtuchel at objektfabrik.de]

Hi Philippe,



Am 29.08.13 17:18, schrieb Philippe Marschall:
> Ok, so the decoding of this URL fails 
> /kontolino?_s=t0JuC1crW9NO2Bw5&_k=8qoE8Ph8YOUaO2a-&19=test% If this 
> indeed the raw URL and not already decoded then it is invalid and can 
> therefore not be decoded. 

Agreed. It is invalid. I know. And therefor, decodePercent: cannot 
handle it. So you can either forget my initial bug report or simply 
throw a better exception (stating the URL is invalid instead of Stream 
access fail).

My Problem is that I am unsure whether I am expecting more from Seaside 
that it is intended to do.

Because if I encodeURI() the input text before I send the Ajax request, 
the callback on the server will get '19=test%25' (the encoded url 
fragment) instead of 'test%' (a decoded url fragment). Do I really have 
to decode the String in an Ajax callback block by hand? Or is this 
failing on VAST only and there needs to be added something.

>> encodeURI() would solve it as well, but that brings up a new problem,
>> because the String received at the server side then is encoded and has to be
>> decoded before it can be processed. AFAIK, VAST cannot do that yet - which
>> is another story...
> Decoding the URL is exactly what the code throwing the exception tries
> to do. Are you sure VAST can't do this? If this is true that should
> show up in other places as well like having % in a GET form.
>
> Can you to to /tests/functional/WAInputGetFunctionalTest and enter
> 'test%' (without '') into "Text Input" and see if that works?
Well, that works, of course. But I think it doesn't prove much. The text 
input on form submit travels as contents of the POST request and not as 
an URL fragment, like an Ajax request does. At least that is how I 
interpret my Firebug output. The text input is transported as 'text%' 
and is not encoded at all (Or Firebug is doing something on the fly to 
display POST arguments).

So what all this seems to boil down to is more a question than a bug report:

1.) I think it is clear now that I should encodeURI() the contents of my 
text input field before handing it to the server as a parameter in an 
AJAX request.

2.) I haven't yet found a place in Seaside where the URL or its 
parameters of an AJAX request are treated differently than "normal" POST 
requests. So maybe I already found the answer to my question which then 
is "I need to decode the String by hand". But maybe you have a tip for 
me where I could look for such a place.

3.) How do others who wrote their jQuery plugins in plain JavaScript 
handle the case? Do they encodeURI() on the client and do they need to 
decode by hand on the server? I ask mainly to find out if I am seeing a 
VAST specific problem or a general one. And to find out if I am 
expecting too much from Seaside (or if I am probably breeding a new 
feature request for Seaside).

4.) Maybe the right question to the wrong list: how can I decodeURI: in 
VAST?

Joachim



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