Ticket #2497 (closed defect: invalid)
post request not passing proper list parameter
| Reported by: | mapleoin | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | 2.1rc1 |
| Component: | TurboGears | Version: | 2.0.3 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Hello,
I'm using webtest to test my application and doing something similar to the following
app.post('/', {mylist: [1,2,3]})
In the controller, I have a post method defined on a RestController.
The request reaches the controller with mylist set to a string: "[1, 2, 3]" instead of a list.
Encoding everything in the url like so:
app.post('/?mylist=1&mylist=2&mylist=3', )
is a little better, because it sets mylist to ['1','2','3']. It's still not the same as [1, 2, 3], but at least I know that there's nothing wrong with my controller.
Change History
comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 18 months ago by chrisz
- Milestone changed from __unclassified__ to 2.1rc1
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 17 months ago by mramm
- Priority changed from normal to low
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to invalid
Replying to chrisz:
Well, it should come through as a string, unless you have a validator to do the conversions for you. That said, the dict of parameters work, but not a dict containing a list of values, and the place where this would have to change is inside of webtest.
And ultimately since webtest can't know that we automatically turn a bunch of strings with the same param into a list in the controller I'm not sure it will ever be changed there.
So, I guess in the end if we want to make this work we'll have to either wrap or subclass webtest, which I'm a bit hesitant to do...
If you feel strongly feel free to raise the issue on the trunk mailing list and we can decide what to do.
