Niphlod, That does not appear to be the case, either for request.restful() requests or regular controller requests. For example, consider this controller method:
def test(): logger.debug(request.env.content_type) logger.debug(request.post_vars) logger.debug(request.body.read()) return With the request data as a JSON array of objects, such as: [{"id":1, "is_read":true}] I get the following logs: 2014-10-23 17:51:47,488 DEBUG test.py test():14 : application/json 2014-10-23 17:51:47,490 DEBUG test.py test():15 : <Storage {}> 2014-10-23 17:51:47,490 DEBUG test.py test():16 : [{"id":1, "is_read":true}] With the data as a JSON object, such as {"id":1, "is_read":true} I get the following logs: 2014-10-23 17:54:46,468 DEBUG test.py test():14 : application/json 2014-10-23 17:54:46,469 DEBUG test.py test():15 : <Storage {u'is_read': True , u'id': 1}> 2014-10-23 17:54:46,470 DEBUG test.py test():16 : {"id":1, "is_read":true} Note that request data is not parsed into request.post_vars. This would make sense to me; since request.post_vars is a Storage object which inherits from a Python dictionary, there would be no dictionary key to store the array value, no? Henry On Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:16:00 AM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote: > > if the content-type of the POST request is application/json, "mylist" > would actually be yet parsed into request.post_vars (i.e. you can skip > body.read()) > > On Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:24:09 AM UTC+2, Henry Nguyen wrote: >> >> For posterity's sake, I was able to retrieve the array in the request >> body by using: >> >> import json >> my_list = json.loads(request.body.read()) >> >> and then iterating through the list items just like any other list. This >> was taken from http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04#request >> under request.body. >> >> Thanks for letting me know that request.restful() wouldn't parse it >> automatically, Niphlod. >> >> Henry >> >> On Monday, October 13, 2014 12:25:54 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> you have to code your own methods. >>> >>> On Sunday, October 12, 2014 11:32:23 PM UTC+2, Henry Nguyen wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a function in my controller decorated with the >>>> @request.restful() decorator. I would like to be able to accept a JSON >>>> array of objects, >>>> >>>> [{"id": 1, "new_value": 1},{"id": 2, "new_value": 2}] >>>> >>>> , on a POST, PUT, or DELETE. For example, I'd like the client to be >>>> able to update a series of values on one request, as opposed to having to >>>> submit multiple requests for each individual update. However, the args and >>>> vars parameters being passed to the methods are empty when a request is >>>> sent with the JSON payload above. Specifically, args only gets populated >>>> from URL args and vars only get populated if the array is accompanied by a >>>> key, such as in: >>>> >>>> {"update": [{"id": 1, "new_value": 1},{"id": 2, "new_value": 2}]} >>>> >>>> While it certainly isn't too much trouble to include that initial key, I >>>> was wondering if there's any way to retrieve the JSON objects from the >>>> request without having to specify the key so that I could pass a simple >>>> array instead? >>>> >>>> Thank you ahead of time for any help. >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.