Re: [Cppcms-users] json

[Artyom B. <art...@gm...>]

> Let's imagine jquery requests:
> 1)
> $.ajax({
>   method: "POST",
>   url: "/test",
>   contentType: "application/json",
>   data: { "key": "test", "array": ["v1","v2","v3"] }
> })
>
> jquery sends data in post form fields something like:
> key=test&array[]=v1&array[]=v2&array[]=v3
> -> cppcms doesn't aggregate values into single json array via
> request().post("array")
> (neither "array", nor "array[]")
>
It shouldn't. If you test application/json than you should parse it as JSON

> b) request doesn't have stream interface to fill cppcms::json::value, so we
> have to deal with raw_post_data(), which is not recommended.
>

Who told you raw_post_data() isn't recommended?

> Do we have a convenient way to deal with json request?

You can just create a temporary istream from the post data and parse
the json - that is what json-rpc API does.
Also CppCMS 1.1 introduced json::parse from range of [char const *,char const *)

> Thanks.
>

Artyom