[Building Sakai] A note about POSTing data to EntityBroker

[Steve Swinsburg]

That's probably one for Aaron, it may be in the JSON parsing perhaps. 

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On 23/03/2012, at 9:52 PM, Matthew Buckett <matthew.buckett at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 23 March 2012 00:00, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've just spent a considerable amount of time battling through an issue I
>> had with POSTing data to EntityBroker, in order to create entities.
>> 
>> To cut a long story short, you need to ensure the content type is being set
>> correctly otherwise you will get unexpected results like the object being
>> created but no data being populated.
>> 
>>  In the case of JSON, it must be:
>> application/json; charset=utf-8
> 
> Is there a reason why from a design point of view it should fail with:
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded ?
> 
> To me this sounds like a bug in entity broker that should either
> support additional content type or throw a nice error saying you need
> to switch to a different content-type.
> 
> -- 
>   Matthew Buckett
>   VLE Developer, LTG, Oxford University Computing Services