C++ rest sdk POST form data json
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That is the way:
utility::string_t Lreq = L"code=" + Lcode;
http_client client(L"http://localhost/posttest/jsontest.php");
// Manually build up an HTTP request with header and request URI.
http_request request(methods::POST);
request.headers().add(L"Content-Type", L"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8");
request.headers().add(L"Content-Length", L"100");
request.headers().add(L"Host", L"testhost.com");
request.headers().add(L"X-Requested-With", L"XMLHttpRequest");
request.set_body(Lreq);
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Máté Eke
Updated on June 21, 2022Comments
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Máté Eke almost 2 years
Is it possible to post "form data" whith C++ rest SDK (Casablanca)? I have a given web service which looking for post data in "form data", not in the body.
This is the C++ code:
http_client client(L"http://localhost/posttest/jsontest.php"); // Manually build up an HTTP request with header and request URI. http_request request(methods::POST); request.headers().add(L"Content-Type", L"application/json"); request.headers().add(L"Content-Length", L"100"); request.headers().add(L"Host", L"example.com"); request.headers().add(L"X-Requested-With", L"XMLHttpRequest"); request.set_body(obj); return client.request(request).then([id](http_response response) { if (response.status_code() == status_codes::OK) { return response.extract_json(); } else { /* Print bad status code */ wcout << L"Server returned returned status code " << response.status_code() << L'.' << std::endl; } return pplx::task_from_result(json::value()); })
The web service can only use data like this (I can't modify it):
$arr = [$_POST['code']]; header('Content-Type: application/json'); echo json_encode($arr);
(This is just a sample PHP code, what I use for testing)