Re: CGI and JSON

[Jesus Guardon <ea7dfh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El 10/4/24 a las 21:48, Benoît Minisini escribió:
> Le 10/04/2024 à 20:47, Jesus Guardon a écrit :
> > Hi all
> >
> > Currently I'm trying to get running my first web application to build 
> > an API Rest Service using JSON to send data back and forth.
> >
> > I am using Request.Post to retrieve the content of a raw Json POST 
> > data with "application/json" header mimetype, but I have no idea how 
> > to get the raw content in the request.Post function.
> >
> > I know how to do it by sending my data as "x-www-form-urlencoded" and 
> > it works, but instead I would like to get the entire body of the post 
> > response. That is how other devs do it in other languages and seems to 
> > be the standard way to deal with JSON data.
> >
> > When I print CGI.Dump() after my request I can see in the 
> > "CONTENT_LENGHT" environment variable the correct lenght of the sent 
> > data, but there doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve the actual data.
> >
> > Benoît, would you shed some light over this?
> >
> > By the way, I'm using Postman as a tool for crafting the POST requests 
> > and it's really a great tool.
> >
> > https://www.postman.com/downloads/
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> Request.Post only deals with 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' and 
> 'multipart/form-data" content type.
>
> For other content type (like 'application/json'), you must read it 
> manually from the standard input.
>
> So you do something like that:
>
> --8<----------------------------------------------------
>
> if Request.Method = "POST" And If Request.ContentType = 
> "application/json" Then
>
>    sData = Read Request.ContentLength
>    MyJsonData = JSON.FromString(sData)
>    ...
>
> Endif
>
> --8<----------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,


Wow! Never thought of reading the stream from a Request. Works like a 
charm, thanks a lot, Benoît!

Best regards

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Jesus Guardon