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mike927
mike927

Reputation: 774

Rails HTTP - POST

I am sending HTTP POST request:

data = { id: 1, name: 'ABC' }

uri = URI.parse('http://localhost:3000/events')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.post(uri, data.to_json)

My routes file:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  post '/events' => 'receiver#create'
end

Whereas create methods looks like:

def create
 package = {
  id: ,
  name: 
 }
end

How can I get access to data values passing via request? My goal is to assign it to new hash within create method

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7035

Answers (1)

EugZol
EugZol

Reputation: 6545

You should set Content-Type header in your request as well:

http.post(uri, data.to_json, {"Content-Type" => "application/json", "Accept" => "application/json"})

Then you can use params[:id] and params[:data] in your controller.

def create
  @package = {id: params.require(:id), data: params.require(:data)}
  head :no_content
end

head :no_content will render empty reply (so you can create view later). And params.require will ensure that your parameters is provided (otherwise controller will return 400 Bad Request response) – so you won't receive some strange undefined method ... of nil errors later in case you missed params in your request.

Upvotes: 3

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