[dancer-users] Help with a POST

Richard Reina gatorreina at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 17:58:50 BST 2015


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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