Ian Bicking wrote:
> An issue I just realized (as Robert was bringing up these things),
> is that I would like to be able to give input streams that don't
> have a known length. In particular, I want to be able to do this:
>
> input = environ['wsgi.input']
> if hasattr(input, 'json_request'):
> request = input.json_request
> else:
> if 'CONTENT_LENGTH' in environ:
> raw_request = input.read(int(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']))
> else:
> raw_request = input.read()
> request = simplejson.loads(raw_request)
>
> The idea is that the request body won't be serialized unless necessary,
> so internal requests (JSON, XMLRPC, etc) can avoid any serialization,
> while the WSGI app can deal with both these cases and normal
> string-based requests. But I can't set CONTENT_LENGTH during these
> internal requests, because I'd need to figure out how long the
> serialized request body was, and that would require actually serializing it.
>
> In the end it doesn't matter a whole lot, because almost no
> intermediaries every look at wsgi.input, though if WSGI apps expecting a
> JSON request but not aware of .json_request get one of these requests,
> it is likely they will fail.
>
> Hmm... I could also set CONTENT_LENGTH='1', and make .read(1) return the
> actual entire body, totally ignoring the size argument. Or make it
> '99999', or whatever. That seems bad-clever, but maybe most workable
> with PEP 333?
I'm getting lost on the phrase "internal request"--what do you mean by that?
Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
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