Hi Everyone,
In one of my controller actions, I am using
data_sent = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(request.body.read)
to get the JSON object sent to this controller via request that has the
object/payload inside the body. I am using curl to send/test this, as
follows:
curl -X POST --header “Content-Type: application/json” --header “Accept:
application/json” - -d “{"foo": "bar"}” “http://localhost:3000/foo”
The result is that I get in data_sent a Hash like this: {foo: “bar”},
which
seems to be correct.
The question here is whether the way I get the data on controller is the
recommended way to do it, or whether there is other more Rails/better
way
to do it.
Thanks in advance
Panayotis
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Panayotis M. <
[email protected]> wrote:
The question here is whether the way I get the data on controller is the
recommended way to do it, or whether there is other more Rails/better way
to do it.
The data is also available in params:
params[:foo] == "bar"
The (potential) problem is that params will also contain additional
fields
added by ActionDispatch: params[:controller] and params[:action], so it
won’t be only the parsed request body.
Hmmmmm. Yes, It works indeed as you say.Thanks for that. To tell you
truth,
I tried that from the beginning, but it didn’t work for me. But probably
was
error on the client side not sending the correct request, rather than on
the server side.
Thanks a lot.
Best
Panayotis
On Aug 8, 2015, at 12:32 AM, Panayotis M.
[email protected] wrote:
Hmmmmm. Yes, It works indeed as you say.Thanks for that. To tell you truth, I
tried that from the beginning, but it didn’t work for me. But probably was
error on the client side not sending the correct request, rather than on the
server side.
In the future when you have a problem like that, first thing to do is
log params.inspect and take a look. Maybe you’ll see how the params are,
and understand that you had a mistake in the way you were accessing
them. If not, then log the request body, and see how RoR parses a
request body into params, and understand that maybe you were expecting
the wrong thing there, or if not, that the request body is not correct.
When you work with complex forms, it’s not at all uncommon to not find
data where you expect it in the params when you’re first developing. So
getting comfortable with debugging those issues is a good thing 
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