From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:12:51 +0200

Hi Leif,

Leif Gensert wrote:
> This questions seems rather stupid, but I don't know how to get the
> POST-parameters of a request. The GET-query-paramers are easy to get by
> the URIInfo object.
>

Not a stupid question. I blame Servlet for this type of confusion of
munging query parameters (that which are in the URI) with parameters of
a particular representation (of media type
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded") in a POST request.


> Can anybody help me? Can I get these Parameters as easy as I can get the
> parameters of the uri? (@Context URIInfo .....)
>

Currently you need to do this:

   @POST
   @ConsumeMime("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
   public void post(MultivaluedMap<String, String> form) { ... }

or

   @POST
   @ConsumeMime("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
   // Form is Jersey specific and implements
   // MultivaluedMap<String, String>
   // Note that Form was called FormURLEncodedProperties prior to 0.7
   public void post(Form form) { ... }


There has been some good discussion on the list about having form beans
and having @FormParam:

   https://jersey.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=1083

The problem is not a technical one but a temporal one :-) looking for
any volunteers to help implement this.

BTW form parameters are really easy to test with curl:

   curl -d "p1=a&p2=b" http://localhost:9999/form

with the following resource:

   @Path("form")
   public class FormResource {
     @POST
     @ConsumeMime(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
     public void post(Form form) {
       System.out.println(form.getFirst("p1"));
       System.out.println(form.getFirst("p2"));
     }
   }

Hope this helps,
Paul.

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