> Is this the totally wrong approach, or is such a feature just not useful
> enough?
> Any feedback would be welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf
>
> On Monday 25 July 2011 22:45:00 Ralf Jung wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> when loading data from a HTTP service with GET, using the url-generator is
>> (in my experience) much more efficient than using xforms-submission.
>> However, the url-generator lacks a way to use different HTTP methods - if
>> I want to issue a large POST or PUT request, I seem to still have to use
>> the xforms-submission processor. That will not only start a full-flown
>> XForms session, it will also parse the whole request and response in a DOM
>> tree, which is horribly inefficient.
>> I guess for PUT and DELETE, which usually do not have a response (besides
>> "failed or not"), I could also use the url-serializer, but I could not find
>> any documentation about which HTTP method it uses or how to configure that
>> (http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/processors-other-
>> serializers#TOC-URL-serializer). Not that serializing to a "DELETE" would
>> make much sense.
>> However, this is obviously no solution for POST as the response is of
>> interest there. I attempted to extend the url-generator to support post,
>> put and delete. Unfortunately, Apache HttpClient sends weird "chunked
>> POST" requests if it is handed an InputStream, so the full POST body has
>> to be buffered in a byte[]. This is however still more memory efficient
>> than parsing it into a DOM tree. I tested it briefly with my usecase, and
>> it worked. However I am sure I did not get the caching part right - I
>> could not figure out what all that validity stuff does, so I just had it
>> return null for non-GET queries. Seems to work ;-)
>>
>> I'd welcome any feedback whether something like this is desired, and
>> whether I chose the right direction to implement it.
>>
>> The attached patch is based on current master.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ralf
>
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