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Sobiaholic
Sobiaholic

Reputation: 2957

CodeIgniter Passing POST data from RestClient to RestServer API

I've spent my whole day trying to figure out this problem. Posting this issue here is my last hope. I hope someone can help to continue working on my first job.

So, POST works fine when directly passing data from my views to the RestServer directly. However, RESTServer API is not able to find POSTs data sent from the RestClient.

Here are the snippets:

RestClient API:

        $ver = 'v1';
        $config = array('server'          => base_url()."v1",
                        'api_key'         => 'xxxxxx',
                        'api_name'        => 'X-API-KEY',
                        'http_user'       => 'admin',
                        'http_pass'       => 'xxxxx',
                        'http_auth'       => 'basic',
                );

        $this->rest->initialize($config);
        $this->rest->format('application/json');
        $param = array(
                'id' => $this->input->post('id'), // works fine here
                'name' => $this->input->post('name')
                );
        $user = $this->rest->post('employer/postNewProject', $param, 'json');


        //if (isset($user->errors)) show_404('admin');
        $this->rest->debug();

RestServer API 

class Employer extends REST_Controller
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->lang->load("application");
        $this->load->library("users/auth"); 
        Datamapper::add_model_path( array( APPPATH."modules" ) );
    }

    public function postNewProject_post()
    {  
        // I tired $this->post() and $this->input->post() but both not finding the data
        $message = array("id" => $this->post("id"), "name" => $this->input->post("name"));
        $this->response($message, 200); // 200 being the HTTP response code
    }
}

Results:

Response when using $this->post('id');
{"id":false}

Response when using $this->post();
{"id":[]}

Note: I've replaced the POSTS requests with hardcoded data, and still the RestServer is not able to recieve the data from my RestClient.

If you need me to provide anything else, please ask.

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 19271

Answers (5)

swap
swap

Reputation: 282

Content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded used for post method

 $param = array(
            'id' => $this->input->post('id'), // works fine here
            'name' => $this->input->post('name')
            );

 $user = $this->rest->post('employer/postNewProject', $param, 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

Content type json for post method RestServer API will be changed for post 

public function postNewProject_post()
{  
   $entity = file_get_contents('php://input', 'r');
   print_r($entity);
}

Upvotes: 1

user1817927
user1817927

Reputation:

make sure you receive data, use 

 echo '<pre> all data received: '.print_r($_REQUEST,1).'</pre>';

make sure is from post

echo '<pre> post data: '.print_r($_POST,1).'</pre>';

Upvotes: 4

Abdul Manan
Abdul Manan

Reputation: 2375

i figure out when and empty 3rd perameter is passed(or when you remove 3rd param) then it works.

    //Not working
    $user = $this->rest->post('employer/postNewProject', $param, 'json');
    //when i change to this ,it's working
     $user = $this->rest->post('employer/postNewProject', $param.'');
     //or 
    $user = $this->rest->post('employer/postNewProject', $param);

if some one has a better solution so that i can award bounty.

Upvotes: 7

Saty
Saty

Reputation: 22532

Use this method to send Rest client data to rest server using post method. Read comment on every line

// initialize you setting 
     $config = array('server' => base_url() . "v1",
            'api_key' => 'xxxxxx',
            'api_name' => 'X-API-KEY',
            'http_user' => 'admin',
            'http_pass' => 'xxxxx',
            'http_auth' => 'basic',
        );
        $this->rest->initialize($config);
// Set method of sending data

        $method = 'post';
// create your param data

        $param = array(
            'id' => $this->input->post('id'), // works fine here
            'name' => $this->input->post('name')
        );
// url where you want to send your param data.

        $uri = 'employer/postNewProject';
        // set format you sending data
        $this->rest->format('application/json');

// send your param data to given url using this

        $result = $this->rest->{$method}($uri, $params);

//code for your controller employer/postNewProject

Controller

function postNewProject()
{
    $data=array(
        'id' => $this->post('id'),
        'name' => $this->post('name')
        );
      print_r($data);
}

Upvotes: 7

zbot
zbot

Reputation: 36

On your RestServer API, it won't have access to POST data, the POST data from RestClient API is passed into RestServer API via $param array, and RestServer API receives that array. In RestServer API you should be able to access those values via the $param array assuming the RestServer API functions consume the $param array and passes it thru.

Upvotes: -2

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