Re: POST JSON vs. urlencoded

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:12:39PM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> Until now I had tested POST to the REST API only with content-type
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded -- this works fine. Now I've started
> testing with application/json and I'm getting a traceback where a
> type-check on the id for a link fails in the rdbms backend with the
> message "link value must be String".

Looks like the standard FieldStorage returns strings, not unicode and
the strings are encoded in UTF-8. The SimulateFieldStorageFromJson
returns unicode, both for the name and value attributes.
(I'm still using python2)

At least in python2 roundup's database interface wants UTF-8 for all
strings. Can someone chime in and tell me if this has changed with
python3? I don't want to change this now and break py3 compatibility.
Unfortunately our REST tests currently don't seem to cover the different
encodings (they just call the rest methods directly).

Ralf
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