Receiving Form Information

[Joel Bassett]

Hello,

A coworker wrote an HTML script that contains a form for the user to submit a TMR ( a JSON object used our natural language processing lab ) to my python script so that can ultimately be stored in a database.

I am having difficulty receiving the data from his HTML form into my python server. 

Here is the relevant HTML (extracted from inspecting the source code via my browser).

        <form id="tmr-form" method="post">

<input id="action-input" type="text" placeholder="Put desination address here">

<textarea id="tmr-input" name="goldTmr" placeholder="Put TMR object here"></textarea>

<button id="submit-tmr" type="submit">Submit</button>

</form>

The first text field recieves the URL of my server, and the text area recieves the TMR that will be sent to my server.

I have tried the following POST() functions:

# This version crashes and reports that goldTmr is not defined

def POST(self):

        form = web.input(goldTmr)

        data= "%s" %(form.goldTmr)

        print(data)

# This version receives a byte string and converts it into a string, but it is not a JSON 

# object anymore. Somewhere in the process of transmitting the data, all of the  curly 

# braces, square braces, and parentheses are replaced by a set of garbled  characters.

def POST(self):

        print(web.data())

        sdata = (web.data()).decode()

        print(sdata)

I would prefer to not ask my coworker to reprogram his HTML script, but I can not find tutorials online that use match our situation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.