Hi, I am using a python script to organize some data and try to send it into web2py via the @request.restful() api. In the python script the text is mainly input from a free form text field. ( I believe some Unicode characters are in there as well, however I remove everything that is ord 128 and above.)
My problem arises when the text contains an ampersand (&) and probably anything that isn't allowed in without the form encoding. I thought python json would escape the character some way but it does not seem to. I am trying to use json to transfer this data to web2py via the curl command within python. Python Script import json import subprocess url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/testing/default/api/people.json' data = {"name":"My Full Name","biography":"Some simple information\n about me & blah blah blah"} jsondata = json.dumps(data) result = subprocess.Popen(['curl', '--user','username:password', '-d', jsondata, url], stderr=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] The web2py relevant parts db.py db.define_table('people', Field('name','string',length=200,requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), Field('biography','text')) default.py auth.settings.allow_basic_login=True @auth.requires_login() @request.restful() def api(): response.view = 'generic.' + request.extension def POST(table_name,**vars): if table_name == 'people': return db.people.validate_and_insert(**vars) else: raise HTTP(400) return locals() So when the python script sends the data web2py complains because of the escaping issue with the & in the data. I was doing some searching and thought that changing the Content Type in the curl command to application/json would help with this but then web2py has nothing in the vars variable. Thank you, Brent -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
