How to send key-value pairs in body of a post request?

[missingfaktor]

Hi, newbie here.

This is inside my Scalatra servlet:

  post("/register") {

    loggingExceptionOn("register") {

      val (name, password) = ("userName", "password").napply(params)

      logger.debug("Registering user %s.".format(name))

      transaction {

        User.register(name, password)

      }

      logger.debug("Registration successful.")

    }

  }

And this is from my test:

      val credentials = Map("userName" -> "natsu", "password" -> "dragneel")

      submit(method = "post", uri = "/snark/register", headers = credentials) {

        status must_== 200

      }

I want to send the name-value pairs in a post request so that they are available to servlet via params. However I am unable to understand how to pass them from test. The above doesn't work.

I can't send them in URL as they also contain a password.

Please help. 

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Cheers,

missingfaktor.

[Stefan Ollinger]

Hi,

i think you can use:

post("/snark/register", "userName" -> "natsu", "password" -> "dragneel") { .. }
submit(method = "post", uri = "/snark/register", body = "userName=foo&password=bar") { .. }

Take a look at: https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra/blob/develop/test/src/main/scala/org/scalatra/test/Client.scala
That file defines the test helper methods.

Regards,
Stefan

[Ross A. Baker]

Calling `get`, `post`, etc. is much more common than submit. The
params of `post`,`put`, and `patch` are submitted as a form body, and
the params of the other methods are submitted on the query string.

`submit` allows finer control if you don't like the way the other
methods are defined, or if you're using a non-standard HTTP method.

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Ross A. Baker
ba...@alumni.indiana.edu
Indianapolis, IN, USA

[missingfaktor]

Thanks for the pointer, Stefan. Using queryParams instead of headers helped.

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Cheers,

missingfaktor.

[missingfaktor]

Thanks for the tip, Ross. 

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Cheers,

missingfaktor.