[Seaside] Http POST problems

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

David,

What exactly are you trying to do ? What is the context ?

Do you want to build a REST interface ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

If so, the Seaside REST package are one answer. But you don't need Seaside as such, there are lower level solutions too.

Or do you want to 'drive' a Seaside app, like in a test scenario ?

For that, there are solutions too.

Sven

> On 14 Mar 2017, at 11:05, David Pennington <david at totallyobjects.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am sorry but I can't see any directions here, just some bullet points on a slideshow.
> 
> David
> 
> --------- Original Message ---------
> From: "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at highoctane.be>
> To: "David Pennington" <david at totallyobjects.com>, "Seaside - general discussion" <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Http POST problems
> Date: 03/13/2017 22:35:05 (Mon)
> 
> For POST, there is the WARestComponentFilter
> 
> http://esug.org/data/ESUG2014/4%20thursday/1400-1530%20Seaside/AdvancedSeasideMarschall.pdf
> 
> So you can expose a REST endpoint.
> 
> Phil
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:21 PM, David Pennington <david at totallyobjects.com> wrote:
> I asked recently if there was a way to do a POST through Seaside but didn't get an answer.
> 
> I have worked at it and got it going but I am confused abut a few things. My Web Page that is the target for the POST is subclassed from WAComponent. I have two issue that I have had to deal with.
> 
> The first is that processing of the POST incoming data requires two instance variables to exist - seasideMimeDocument
> seasideMimeDocumentType
> 
> I had to add these to my top level class and then everything seemed OK except that the data was missing.
> 
> In the WARequest object there is a variable called postFields so someone had foreseen the need for handling a POST  but this field is empty.
> 
> There is a field in the headers called content_type and for now I have replaced the more usual "application/json" with my json data and I can get it from there.
> 
> Can anyone give me a clue what I can do to fix this?
> 
> David
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