Post Data Not Populated

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi everyone,

I am seeing some strange behaviour. I am building an api and all the GET requests work well. The post requests are not. When I make a call to the api none of the posted data is available in Yii. So $_POST is empty unless I attach a file to the request. If I post a file as well both $_POST and $FILES are populated. Any thoughts on why this might be happening ?

Here is a sample without the file and response

Request




Request Url: hhhh://********/api/Publication?oauth_apikey=?????????????

Request Method: POST

Status Code: 200

Params: {

    "data": "{\"title\":\"new pub\",\"logo\":\"hhhh://s3.amazonaws.co...ccess_Brazil_Graphic.jpg\",\"sources\":[{\"url\":\"toms\",\"enabled\":true}]}"

}

and


print_r($_POST)

returns nothing

Here is a call with the file where the post data is populated




Request Url: hhhh://********cation?oauth_apikey=???????????????

Request Method: POST

Status Code: 200

Files: {

    "0": {

        "webkitRelativePath": "",

        "lastModifiedDate": "2012-10-05T14:10:44.000Z",

        "name": "Access_Brazil_Graphic.jpg",

        "type": "image/jpeg",

        "size": 52114

    },

    "length": 1

}

Params: {

    "data": " {\"title\"=>\"sdfsdf\", \"sources\"=>[{\"url\"=>\"sdfsdf\", \"enabled\"=>true}], \"oauth_apikey\"=>\"c5d?????????????????????????????368264\", \"rule\"=>{}}"

}

Its reponse to print_r($_POST) is




Array([data] = > {

    "title" = > "sdfsdf", "sources" = > [{

        "url" = > "sdfsdf", "enabled" = > true

    }], "oauth_apikey" = > "fsfdf?????????????????", "rule" = > {}

})

Testing I am using the Chrome REST Console and here is the software stack

Yii version 1.1.10

PHP 5.3

Apache

I have changed the links as I cant embed them in a post and the apikey are mashed.

Thanks

Dave

2

Notice the difference the first one is using json syntax with (:) {key:value}


"data": "{\"title\":\"new pub\",\"logo\":\"hhhh://s3.amazonaws.co...ccess_Brazil_Graphic.jpg\",\"sources\":[{\"url\":\"toms\",\"enabled\":true}]}"

this one is using (=>) {key=>value}


"data": " {\"title\"=>\"sdfsdf\", \"sources\"=>[{\"url\"=>\"sdfsdf\", \"enabled\"=>true}], \"oauth_apikey\"=>\"c5d?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?368264\", \"rule\"=>{}}"

just make sure you have the same syntax and try

3

Thanks for the quick response.

I have made sure the data is the same




Params: {

    "data": "{\"title\"=>\"sdfsdf\", \"sources\"=>[{\"url\"=>\"sdfsdf\", \"enabled\"=>true}], \"oauth_apikey\"=>\"c5d49fb3bd78e84dc3489a4e0f869668a2f57128368264\", \"rule\"=>{}}"

}

for both calls but the problem is still there.

Some more data might help.

So here is the request payload from chrome developer Network Tab, everything else is the same bar this:

Simple POST which does not work:




data=%7B%22title%22%3D%3E%22sdfsdf%22%2C%20%22sources%22%3D%3E%5B%7B%22url%22%3D%3E%22sdfsdf%22%2C%20%22enabled%22%3D%3Etrue%7D%5D%2C%20%22oauth_apikey%22%3D%3E%22c5?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />??%22%2C%20%22rule%22%3D%3E%7B%7D%7D

Simple POST with file attached which does work:




------WebKitFormBoundaryfT15s6NZ5JJZ5mPA

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"


{"title"=>"sdfsdf", "sources"=>[{"url"=>"sdfsdf", "enabled"=>true}], "oauth_apikey"=>"<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?<img src='http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='???' />?", "rule"=>{}}

------WebKitFormBoundaryfT15s6NZ5JJZ5mPA

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Access_Brazil_Graphic.jpg"; filename="Access_Brazil_Graphic.jpg"

Content-Type: image/jpeg




------WebKitFormBoundaryfT15s6NZ5JJZ5mPA--

Any other suggestions ?

UPDATE

Something stupid on my behalf. If I set the Content-type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded it worked.

I have it as form-data

Thanks for the help anyway

Dave