[mod_python] clarity on request.form

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:17:45PM -0400, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> David Bear wrote ..
> > >From the manual, I don't understand the following statement:
> > '''
> > Since a FieldStorage can only be instantiated once per request, one
> > must not attempt to instantiate FieldStorage when using the Publisher
> > handler and should use Request.form instead.
> > '''
> > 
> > I've been using publisher as a dispatcher to select the next psp to
> > serve. Does the above statement imply that I cannot do this?  Where is
> > Request.form define? is Request not the same as req?
> 
> Add a argument called "req" to your published function and then
> access "req.form".
> 
>   def index(req):
>     form = req.form
> 

okay. thats what I thought I could do. however, the paragraph from the
manual tripped me up.

> Unfortunately PSP doesn't play too nice with publisher as far as
> form creation and will create its own if you access "form" from
> inside PSP page. If request is a GET request, although redundantly
> created, the form will still work. If a POST request though, there
> will be no fields as publisher already consumed it.

So, in order to pass req.form to a psp, I would need to copy it to
some object? simple

   thisform = req.form
   vars = thisform
   return psp.PSP('somepsp.html', vars)

won't work? or will the assignment make a copy?

> 
> The work around for this is to use something like:
> 
>     page = psp.PSP(.....)
>     page.run({"form": form})
>     ...
> 
> There was discussion about having PSP understand convention of req.form
> being populated by publisher and use it if it exists, but no consensus
> was reached on whether it was a good idea or not.
> 
> Graham

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