Using alf_method to simulate POST

andrepra — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:56:33 GMT

I developed an application using webscripts in Alfresco 3.0. To reduce the number of webscripts often i declared webscripts supporting POST but i called them also with a GET using the parameter alf_method. http://....../wcsevice/...?alf_method=POST&param1=….Also indicated in this posthttp://f

Re: Using alf_method to simulate POST

andrepra — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:04:01 GMT

Looking into spring framework extension source code version CI included in Alfresco I found the problem.
Class org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletRuntime
Row 73


    protected String getScriptMethod()
    {
        // Is this an overloaded POST request?
        String method = req.getMethod();
        if (method.equalsIgnoreCase("post"))
        {
            boolean overloadParam = false;
            String overload = req.getHeader("X-HTTP-Method-Override");
            if (overload == null || overload.length() == 0)
            {
                overload = req.getParameter("alf_method");
                overloadParam = true;
            }
            if (overload != null && overload.length() > 0)
            {
                if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
                    logger.debug("POST is tunnelling method '" + overload + "' as specified by " + (overloadParam ? "alf_method parameter" : "X-HTTP-Method-Override header"));
                
                method = overload;
            }
        }
        
        return method;
    }
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The problem is the if that check only the post method

Looking last release RC1 on subversion the "if" statement is


if (method.equalsIgnoreCase("get") || method.equalsIgnoreCase("post"))
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