Reading form data about jester HOT 11 CLOSED

  post "/submit":
    try:
      var
        username = $(request.formData.mget "username").body
        url = $(request.formData.mget "url").body

      db.updateTweetsByUser(username, url)
      db.exec(sql"insert into users values (null, ?, ?)", username, url)
      db.exec(sql"insert into tweets values (null, 'twtxtlist', ?, ?)",
              $(getTime().getGMTime().timeinfoToTime().toSeconds()),
              "Added user @<" & username & " " & url & ">")

      redirect "/users/" & username & "/0"
    except: fail()

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Nope, what I get in request.formData is an empty table. According to the README, formData is populated only for a content-type of multipart/form-data. The usual url encoded format does not seem to be supported

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You should be able to use @:

get "/":
  echo(@"q") # -> "foo" for http://localhost:5000/?q=foo

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I am not talking about querystring parameters in a GET request. I am talking about form parameters in a POST request. The actual thing that gets sent to the server when clicking submit on a HTML form

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Something like this? https://github.com/dom96/jester/blob/master/tests/alltest.nim#L65L79

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I just checked, and in fact form parameters can be retrieved via @"parameter-name". :-)

I think it would be useful to document this (by the way, I could not find a way to distinguish them from url or querystring parameters with the same name).

I am not sure what the example you linked is about. Are you testing it by opening in a browser? If so, I would expect it to fail to extract the form data

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I think it would be useful to document this

PRs welcome ;)

(by the way, I could not find a way to distinguish them from url or querystring parameters with the same name).

That may be a problem, but can't you simply rename one of those?

I am not sure what the example you linked is about. Are you testing it by opening in a browser? If so, I would expect it to fail to extract the form data

Not sure why you would expect it to fail, it's a simple form and when you submit it you are shown where the data is stored.

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Yeah, of course one can avoid the name clash. It is not an actual issue I have, just an observation.

The reason I expect it to fail is that when posting a form from the browser the content is url-encoded, and as far as I can tell request.formData is only populated for multipart forms

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The reason I expect it to fail is that when posting a form from the browser the content is url-encoded, and as far as I can tell request.formData is only populated for multipart forms

It's just an example so if formData is empty it will just display {}.

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Understood. I think I can close this issue, thank you for the help :-)

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Np :)

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