svn commit: r1352780 - /httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml

[hu...@apache.org]

Author: humbedooh
Date: Fri Jun 22 06:45:17 2012
New Revision: 1352780

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1352780&view=rev
Log:
backport from trunk: Update (fix) the POST data retrieval example.

Modified:
    httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml

Modified: httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml?rev=1352780&r1=1352779&r2=1352780&view=diff
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--- httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml (original)
+++ httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/manual/developer/modguide.xml Fri Jun 22 06:45:17 2012
@@ -548,11 +548,14 @@ POST data is four simple lines:
 
 <!-- BEGIN EXAMPLE CODE -->
 <highlight language="c">
-<a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__apr__tables.html#gad7ea82d6608a4a633fc3775694ab71e4">apr_table_t</a> *GET;
-<a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/structapr__array__header__t.html">apr_array_header_t</a> *POST;
-
-<a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__APACHE__CORE__SCRIPT.html#gaed25877b529623a4d8f99f819ba1b7bd">ap_args_to_table</a>(r, &amp;GET);
-<a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__APACHE__CORE__DAEMON.html#ga9d426b6382b49754d4f87c55f65af202">ap_parse_form_data</a>(r, NULL, &amp;POST, -1, 8192);
+<a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__apr__tables.html#gad7ea82d6608a4a633fc3775694ab71e4">apr_table_t</a> *GET; <em>
+</em><a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/structapr__array__header__t.html">apr_array_header_t</a>*POST; 
+<em>
+</em>
+<a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__APACHE__CORE__SCRIPT.html#gaed25877b529623a4d8f99f819ba1b7bd">
+ap_args_to_table</a>(r, &amp;GET); <em>
+</em><a href="http://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__APACHE__CORE__DAEMON.html#ga9d426b6382b49754d4f87c55f65af202">
+ap_parse_form_data</a>(r, NULL, &amp;POST, -1, 8192); 
 </highlight>
 <!-- END EXAMPLE CODE -->
 
@@ -1569,34 +1572,56 @@ or check out the rest of our documentati
 
 <section id="snippets"><title>Some useful snippets of code</title>
 
-<section id="get_post"><title>Retrieve a variable from POST form data</title>
+<section id="get_post"><title>Retrieve variables from POST form data</title>
 
 
 <!-- BEGIN EXAMPLE CODE -->
 <highlight language="c">
-const char *read_post_value(const apr_array_header_t *fields, const char *key) 
-{
-    /*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/
-    int                         i;
-    apr_table_entry_t           *e = 0;
-    /*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/
-    e = (apr_table_entry_t *) fields-&gt;elts;
-    for(i = 0; i &lt; fields-&gt;nelts; i++) {
-        if(!strcmp(e[i].key, key)) return e[i].val;
+typedef struct {
+    const char* key;
+    const char* value;
+} keyValuePair;
+
+keyValuePair* readPost(request_req* r) {
+    apr_array_header_t *pairs = NULL;
+    apr_off_t len;
+    apr_size_t size;
+    int res;
+    int i = 0;
+    char *buffer;
+    keyValuePair* kvp;
+
+    res = ap_parse_form_data(r, NULL, &amp;pairs, -1, HUGE_STRING_LEN);
+    if (res != OK || !pairs) return NULL; /* Return NULL if we failed or if there are is no POST data */
+    kvp = apr_pcalloc(r->pool, sizeof(keyValuePair) * (pairs->nelts + 1));
+    while (pairs &amp;&amp; !apr_is_empty_array(pairs)) {
+        ap_form_pair_t *pair = (ap_form_pair_t *) apr_array_pop(pairs);
+        i++;
+        apr_brigade_length(pair->value, 1, &amp;len);
+        size = (apr_size_t) len;
+        buffer = apr_palloc(r->pool, size + 1);
+        apr_brigade_flatten(pair->value, buffer, &amp;size);
+        buffer[len] = 0;
+        kvp[i]->key = apr_pstrdup(r->pool, pair->name);
+        kvp[i]->value = buffer;
     }
-    return 0;
+    return kvp;    
 }
+
 static int example_handler(request_req *r) 
 {
     /*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/
-    apr_array_header_t *POST;
-    const char         *value;
-    /*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/
-    ap_parse_form_data(r, NULL, &amp;POST, -1, 8192);
     
-    value = read_post_value(POST, &quot;valueA&quot;);
-    if (!value) value = &quot;(undefined)&quot;;
-    ap_rprintf(r, &quot;The value of valueA is: %s&quot;, value);
+    keyValuePair* formData;
+    /*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/
+
+    formData = readPost();
+    if (formData) {
+        int i;
+        for (i = 0; formData[i]; i++) {
+            ap_rprintf(r, &quot;%s == %s\n&quot;, formData[i]->key, formData[i]->value);
+        }
+    }
     return OK;
 }
 </highlight>