[dancer-users] Help with a POST
Andrew Solomon
andrew at geekuni.com
Fri Aug 7 18:12:37 BST 2015
That looks very much like you're only managing to make GET calls. I suggest
you use curl at the command-line at the outset, then you can struggle with
getting your browser to obey:)
Andrew
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry this is my dancer console output:
>
> >> Dancer 1.3140 server 24745 listening on http://0.0.0.0:3000
> >> Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator (1.131620)
> == Entering the development dance floor ...
> [24745] core @0.000165> request: GET /user from 127.0.0.1 in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 58
> [24745] core @0.000569> [hit #1]Trying to match 'GET /user' against
> /^\/$/ (generated from '/') in /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Route.pm
> l. 85
> [24745] core @0.000757> [hit #1]Trying to match 'GET /user' against
> /^\/player$/ (generated from '/player') in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Route.pm l. 85
> [24745] core @0.000932> [hit #1]Trying to match 'GET /user' against
> /^\/sponsor$/ (generated from '/sponsor') in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Route.pm l. 85
> [24745] core @0.001113> [hit #1]Trying to match 'GET /user' against
> /^\/$/ (generated from '/') in /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Route.pm
> l. 85
> [24745] core @0.001282> [hit #1]Trying to match 'GET /user' against
> /^\/player$/ (generated from '/player') in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Route.pm l. 85
> [24745] core @0.001452> [hit #1]Trying to match 'GET /user' against
> /^\/sponsor$/ (generated from '/sponsor') in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Route.pm l. 85
> [24745] core @0.001956> [hit #1]response: 304 in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 181
> [24745] core @0.000174> request: GET /css/error.css from 127.0.0.1 in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 58
> [24745] core @0.000710> [hit #2]response: 304 in
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 181
>
>
>
> 2015-08-07 11:58 GMT-05:00 Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com>:
>
>> This is my dancer console output.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-08-07 11:11 GMT-05:00 Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> replacing the first few lines with:
>>>
>>> <html>
>>> <body>
>>>
>>> <h1>Get in the game.</h1>
>>>
>>> <form action="user" method="POST">
>>> First name:<br>
>>>
>>> I still get Error 404
>>>
>>> Interestingly enough when I modify this
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_form_submit to
>>> method="POST" it does not work either.
>>>
>>> 2015-08-07 10:54 GMT-05:00 John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> And I know there's a helper you can use to fill in the action so that
>>>> you don't have to update the URLs when you deploy it elsewhere.... but
>>>> I'm at work and not near my notes...
>>>>
>>>> Ah... here it is. Just do:
>>>>
>>>> <form action="user">
>>>>
>>>> And I think you also want to remove the <!DOCTYPE html> as well, since
>>>> this template will get embedded into alayout which will take care of
>>>> all that stuff.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> I think what you're after is something like this to tell the
>>>> browser you want to POST:
>>>> Andrew> <form action="http://localhost:3000/user" method="POST">
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> Does that do the trick?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> A
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Richard Reina <
>>>> gatorreina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> Wait, Does this provide a clue to the error of my ways?
>>>> This is the template (user.tt) that I
>>>> Andrew> am using for the form.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> <!DOCTYPE html>
>>>> Andrew> <html>
>>>> Andrew> <body>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> <h1>Get in the game.</h1>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> <form>
>>>> Andrew> First name:<br>
>>>> Andrew> <input type="text" name="firstname">
>>>> Andrew> <br>
>>>> Andrew> Last name:<br>
>>>> Andrew> <input type="text" name="lastname">
>>>> Andrew> <br>
>>>> Andrew> Email Address:<br>
>>>> Andrew> <input type="text" name="email">
>>>> Andrew> <br>
>>>> Andrew> User Password:<br>
>>>> Andrew> <input type="password" name="psw">
>>>> Andrew> <br>
>>>> Andrew> User Confirm Password:<br>
>>>> Andrew> <input type="password" name="psw2">
>>>> Andrew> <br>
>>>> Andrew> Terms & Conditions
>>>> Andrew> <input type="checkbox" name="terms"> I agree with terms and
>>>> conditions.<br>
>>>> Andrew> <br>
>>>> Andrew> <input type="submit" value="Go" />
>>>> Andrew> </form>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> <p>Note that the form itself is not visible.</p>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> <p>Also note that the default width of a text field is 20
>>>> characters.</p>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> </body>
>>>> Andrew> </html>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> 2015-08-07 9:36 GMT-05:00 John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org>:
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> You need to build a web page with a FORM first, then
>>>> submit the data
>>>> Andrew> that way to the /user URL, so it can get handled.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> Try using git to clone this repository and use that as
>>>> a base for your
>>>> Andrew> playing around:
>>>>
>>>> Andrew>
>>>> https://github.com/agordon/dancer_bootstrap_fontawesome_template.git
>>>>
>>>> Andrew> I don't have any working examples handy right this
>>>> second...
>>>>
>>>> Richard> I am hoping someone can help me understand how to get this to
>>>> Richard> work as a POST instead of GET. When I do sub below as 'get'
>>>> Richard> it works but when I replace 'get' with 'post' I get:
>>>>
>>>> Richard> --2015-08-06 13:52:05-- http://0.0.0.0:3000/user
>>>> Richard> Connecting to 0.0.0.0:3000... connected.
>>>> Richard> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>>>> Richard> 2015-08-06 13:52:05 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>>>>
>>>> Richard> package MyApp;
>>>> Richard> use Dancer ':syntax';
>>>> Richard> use Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator;
>>>>
>>>> Richard> our $VERSION = '0.1';
>>>>
>>>> Richard> post '/user' => sub {
>>>>
>>>> Richard> my $input_hash = {
>>>>
>>>> Richard> FName => param('firstname'),
>>>> Richard> LName => param('lastname'),
>>>> Richard> Email => param('email'),
>>>> Richard> Terms => param('terms'),
>>>>
>>>> Richard> };
>>>>
>>>> Richard> my $number_of_defined_values = scalar grep { defined }
>>>> values %{$input_hash};
>>>> Richard> $number_of_defined_values = $number_of_defined_values + 0;
>>>>
>>>> Richard> if ($number_of_defined_values > 1) {
>>>>
>>>> Richard> my $error = form_validator_error( 'profile_user',
>>>> $input_hash );
>>>>
>>>> Richard> if ( ! $error ) {
>>>> Richard> #the user provided complete and validates data
>>>> it's cool to proceed
>>>>
>>>> Richard> } else {
>>>>
>>>> Richard> my %hash = %$error;
>>>> Richard> foreach my $k (keys %hash) {
>>>> Richard> return "$k: $hash{$k}\n";
>>>>
>>>> Richard> }
>>>>
>>>> Richard> }
>>>> Richard> }
>>>>
>>>> Richard> template 'user';
>>>>
>>>> Richard> ##########################################################
>>>> Richard> }; ### end of sub user ###################################
>>>>
>>>> Richard> true;
>>>>
>>>> Richard> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>>
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