Is there a shorthand to get the contents of an htt...

# ktor

[hallvard]

Is there a shorthand to get the contents of an http POST operation in a map? I use the same procedure as the example linked from http://ktor.io/samples/post.html, but find it unneccessary to iterate over a MultipartData structure to get my values. Changing the content type from form-data to x-www-form-urlencoded doesn't help, I still don't find a simple toMap(). Am I missing something?

[cy]

Use call.receive<StringValues>()

[cy]

There is no reason to use multipart unless you need to create a file upload form

[cy]

We need to complete this example to cover both cases

[hallvard]

OK, trying. And I'm sorry for asking this, (but I remember now why I didn't go that way in the first place): why do I then get a 415 Unsupported Media Type: POST?

[hallvard]

My HTML is pretty simple: <form action="/test" method="post">
<p>To: <input type="text" name="to" value=""></p>
<p>Heading: <input type="text" name="heading"></p>
<p>Summary: <input type="text" name="summary"></p>
<p><input type="checkbox" name="recommend"> Also create a recommendation</p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit"></p>

</form>

[hallvard]

Did I miss a setting permitting POST somewhere?

[hallvard]

The 415 comes when I use a ContentNegotiation with jackson ... If I comment that part out, I get a regular 500 error: ContentTransformationException: Cannot transform this request's content to class io.ktor.util.StringValues ...

[orangy]

receiveParameters should work

[hallvard]

Yes it did. Thanks, @cy and @orangy!

[hallvard]

Funny: with install(ContentNegotiation), I got a 415. Without it, I got a 500. But since it now works fine with receiveParameters, I'm not looking backwards. I do look forward to seeing more documentation, though...

[orangy]

@Deactivated User is working on docs! Hurray 🙂

[Deactivated User]

🙂 Yep. Thanks for the feedback @hallvard ! I’m taking notes about this and will update documentation accordingly