On 17.01.2011, at 17:11, Bulat Shakirzyanov wrote:
> Dear Symfony2 developers,
>
> I have some thoughts about Request object.
>
> Currently Request object is initializing itself from PHP global variables.
> However, this makes it hard to re-use the same controllers for REST
> request handling. As the $request attribute of Request object is only
> populated on a form post.
>
> The typical html post request looks like this:
>
> Request line
> Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> key=val&key2=val2
>
> While a typical json REST post looks or should look like:
>
> Request line
> Content-type: application/json
>
> {
> key: val,
> key2: val2
> }
>
> I am not gonna show an xml example here, but you get the idea.
>
> So, from looking at all of the above, we could see, that there needs
> to be something that knows how to transform a request body string
> (be it a urlencoded key/value pairs or a json object) into a php array,
> that will become Request::$request.
>
> We could then register those transformers based on request content
> type and provice Symfony2 default transformers so that basic REST
> requests can be handled by the same controllers as regular HTML
> ones.
>
> We could also provide ability to overload those transformers and add
> more of user's transformers, in case they want to go full REST and
> use HATEOAS in their API, or simply in case they don't want to use
> smart defaults.
>
> I personally would also like to make the Request object less smart
> and keep it similar to the Response one, where all the data is provided
> from the outside and only data-specific operations live inside the class.
> I would like therefore the Kernel to be responsible for request population
> but there might be gotchas, that I am not aware of.
I agree in principle.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]
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