RestHelper GET strips off .com when GETting email as parameter with .com address

[Albert Sikkema]

Hi All,

I'm using the RestHelper to create a restful service. All works great, however I'm running into a weird thing. When submitting an email via an HTTP GET with a .com domain it strips off the .com in the rest endpoint. Any other domain (.nl for example) works.

function:

case "check" :: "email" :: email :: _ Get _ => {

      println("rest email = " + email)

//logic..

}

when submitting: http://localhost:8080/check/email/testp...@domain.com it prints: "rest email = testperson@domain"

when submitting: http://localhost:8080/check/email/testp...@domain.nl it prints: "rest email = testperson@domain.nl"

I can't see why it behaves differently for .com, I've tried many variations(like .coms), but it only strips off .com somehow. Is this intended behavior? (should I encode the email or something?)

Thanks for your help!

-Albert

[Jeppe Nejsum Madsen]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Albert Sikkema <a.sik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using the RestHelper to create a restful service. All works great,
> however I'm running into a weird thing. When submitting an email via an HTTP
> GET with a .com domain it strips off the .com in the rest endpoint. Any
> other domain (.nl for example) works.
>
> function:
> case "check" :: "email" :: email :: _ Get _ => {
>       println("rest email = " + email)
> //logic..
> }
>
> when submitting: http://localhost:8080/check/email/testp...@domain.com it
> prints: "rest email = testperson@domain"
> when submitting: http://localhost:8080/check/email/testp...@domain.nl it

> prints: "rest email = testp...@domain.nl"

>
> I can't see why it behaves differently for .com, I've tried many
> variations(like .coms), but it only strips off .com somehow. Is this
> intended behavior? (should I encode the email or something?)

Have a look at LiftRules.explicitlyParsedSuffixes

/**
* When a request is parsed into a Req object, certain suffixes are
explicitly split from
* the last part of the request URI. If the suffix is contained in
this list, it is explicitly split.
* The default list is: "html", "htm", "jpg", "png", "gif", "xml",
"rss", "json" ...
*/
@volatile var explicitlyParsedSuffixes: Set[String] = knownSuffixes

/Jeppe

[Albert Sikkema]

Aha! Searched everywhere. Now it makes sense. I guess, for my particular use-case taking out 'com' from the list works. Can't see any harm in that. (is there?)

Thanks a lot for the pointer!

-Albert

[Richard Dallaway]

I've done this kind of thing in the past:

case Req("check" :: "email" :: email :: Nil, suffix, GetRequest) =>

   val complete_address = if (suffix.isEmpty) email else "%s.%s" format (email,suffix) 

  ("email" -> complete_address): JObject  

     

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/check/email/testp...@domain.com

{

  "email":"testp...@domain.com"

}

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/check/email/testp...@domain.nl

{

  "email":"testp...@domain.nl"

}

Regards

Richard

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[Albert Sikkema]

I went with that at first, but since I don't want to have .com split off anywhere I solved it using:

LiftRules.explicitlyParsedSuffixes = Helpers.knownSuffixes &~ (Set("com"))

-Albert