Comments on: Getting data into a Sinatra Application

By: admin

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:23:34 +0000

Yeah, both useful, but slightly different.

By: Juvenn Woo

Juvenn Woo — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:01:09 +0000

You right, Chris.

`request.body.read` is the recommended way to get the request payload.

I guess `request.POST` parse the payload according to request header `content-type`. Say if it is x-www-form-urlencoded, then POST() will return a hash.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:56:11 +0000

From my reading of the code, .body and .POST() are different. .body gives you exactly the content of the request, while POST does various parsing.

In fact, it looks like Sinatra uses POST() internally to get the params[] object setup right. http://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/master/lib/sinatra/base.rb#L41

By: Juvenn Woo

Juvenn Woo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:49:19 +0000

In latest pre 1.0 release, the last example maybe:

request.POST()

http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/classes/Rack/Request.html#M000224

By: cschneid

cschneid — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:41:11 +0000

Your right, you should be able to skip the env call.

To keep it the same as my original example, it would be: request.body.read.

By: Adam Wiggins

Adam Wiggins — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:45:18 +0000

A slightly shorter version of the last example: raw = request.body.string