[jira] Commented: (TAP5-1285) Allow GET method in form component

["Howard M. Lewis Ship (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Howard M. Lewis Ship commented on TAP5-1285:
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I would be more sympathetic to the POST/GET dichotomy if HTML supported post for hyperlinks, but regardless.

The main issue here is that Tapestry generates a fairly large block of encoded data, the t:formdata hidden field. That will often get truncated in a GET request due to URL length limitations.

> Allow GET method in form component
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TAP5-1285
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-1285
>             Project: Tapestry 5
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: tapestry-core
>            Reporter: Lutz Hühnken
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The Tapestry form component is currently only supporting the "POST" method.
> The POST method is usually associated with changing the "model" on the server side, e.g. in REST applications, POST indicates that a resource is modified, if I am not mistaken.
> The lack of GET support makes it necessary to use POST also for simple queries, such as a search field, where the model is not modified.
> This is a) semantically irritating, since for example a search query will not modify state and
> b) requires extra "work", for example a redirect-after-post, where it should not be necessary.
> Since Tapestry aspires to make the simple things easy, the difficult things possible, I think it should provide first-class support for the GET method.

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