[jira] [Updated] (COUCHDB-1855) POST/GET query is not processing arrays properly

["Andrew Spode Miller (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andrew Spode Miller updated COUCHDB-1855:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)
    
> POST/GET query is not processing arrays properly
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1855
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1855
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>            Reporter: Andrew Spode Miller
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Sending an array in POST/GET url encoded form is not working correctly.
> For example:
> ?foo[]=bar&foo[]=bar2
> OR
> ?foo[0]=bar&foo[1]=bar2
> OR 
> ?foo=bar&foo=bar2
> Should be converted to:
> foo = ["bar", "bar2"]
> Instead, the last element overwrites it. So in the above example, excluding the 2nd variety, you would get:
> foo = "bar2"
> I can't find a W3C document to back up this behaviour - but certainly in PHP and Java, this is normal behaviour. jQuery also converts an array into this format too, so if it's not "standard" it's certainly expected.
> According to "rnewson" who I was chatting to on IRC - the reason this is happening is that the URL query is being converted to a JSON object. Therefore, two items with the same key name would overwrite each other. He also says the following:
> "yes, I think you'd want to convert "foo=bar&foo=baz" into "foo":["bar","baz"] instead of [{"foo","bar"},{"foo","baz"}] in couch_httpd_external's to_json_terms function."
> I have put a work around in my own code, so this isn't a priority for me - but perhaps if someone else already has the relevant bit of code open... :)

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