WEB GET HTTP BODY($body)
http://doc.4d.com/4Dv15/4D/15.4/WEB-GET-HTTP-BODY.301-3275031.en.html
> On Apr 4, 2017, at 5:16 PM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I need a little guidance here. I have a web form (in a browser) that is
> submitting data to 4D. I collect the data on the webform into an object
> then stringify it for passing to 4D - like so:
>
> var postData = JSON.stringify(woData);
> $.post( "/workorder/data", postData)
> .done(function(data) {
> if(data.error){ // show the error
> swal(data.error, '', 'warning');
> } else {
> swal(data.pageMsg, '', 'success');
> }
> })
> .fail(function() {
> swal('Fail!');
> })
> .always(function() {
> // alert( "complete" );
> });
>
>
> I expected (because I saw it work this way in Tim Penner's great example
> db) on the 4D side I could do something like this:
>
> ARRAY TEXT($at_names;0)
> ARRAY TEXT($at_values;0)
> WEB GET VARIABLES($at_names;$at_values)
>
> and $at_names{1} would equal "data" and $
> at_values
> {1} would be the JSON.
>
> Instead what I get is
>
> $at_names{1} = first part of the JSON
> $at_values{1} = the second part of the JSON
>
> Now, the good news is this seems to be consistent. I can concatenate the
> two parts and parse it fine.
> But I don't understand why it's working this way.
>
> The data payload varies in length but isn't huge. It contains a few
> fields, some text and a couple of JSON arrays. It is too long to encode
> into the URL though so
>
> $.post( "/workorder?data=" + postData)
>
> doesn't work. (I tried.)
>
> I'm hoping someone can either correct my approach or assure me it's OK.
>
> Thanks, I really appreciate the help.
>
>
> --
> Kirk Brooks
> San Francisco, CA
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