<div dir="ltr">Hi Richard<div><br></div><div>How are you calling it? You can't just call it by putting the url in your browser since the browser will be making a GET request. I'd use curl as described here</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://superuser.com/questions/149329/what-is-the-curl-command-line-syntax-to-do-a-post-request">http://superuser.com/questions/149329/what-is-the-curl-command-line-syntax-to-do-a-post-request</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>(or in the 'man curl' page if you read it slowly:)</div><div><br></div><div>Next question - why are you using Dancer instead of Dancer2?</div><div><br></div><div>Dancer2 is a redesign to make things more easy/powerful/enjoyable...</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Richard Reina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gatorreina@gmail.com" target="_blank">gatorreina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><pre>I am hoping someone can help me understand how to get this to work as a POST instead of GET.<br>When I do sub below as 'get' it works but when I replace 'get' with 'post' I get:
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-3"></a>--2015-08-06 13:52:05-- <a href="http://0.0.0.0:3000/user" target="_blank">http://0.0.0.0:3000/user</a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-4"></a>Connecting to 0.0.0.0:3000... connected.
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-5"></a>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-6"></a>2015-08-06 13:52:05 ERROR 404: Not Found.
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-9"></a>package MyApp;
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-10"></a>use Dancer ':syntax';
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-11"></a>use Dancer::Plugin::FormValidator;
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-12"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-13"></a>our $VERSION = '0.1';
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-15"></a>post '/user' => sub {
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-17"></a> my $input_hash = {
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-18"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-19"></a> FName => param('firstname'),
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-20"></a> LName => param('lastname'),
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-21"></a> Email => param('email'),
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-22"></a> Terms => param('terms'),
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-23"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-24"></a> };
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-25"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-26"></a> my $number_of_defined_values = scalar grep { defined } values %{$input_hash};
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-27"></a> $number_of_defined_values = $number_of_defined_values + 0;
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-28"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-29"></a> if ($number_of_defined_values > 1) {
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-30"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-31"></a> my $error = form_validator_error( 'profile_user', $input_hash );
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-33"></a> if ( ! $error ) {
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-34"></a> #the user provided complete and validates data it's cool to proceed
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-36"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-37"></a> } else {
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-38"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-39"></a> my %hash = %$error;
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-40"></a> foreach my $k (keys %hash) {
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-41"></a> return "$k: $hash{$k}\n";
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-42"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-43"></a> }
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-44"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-45"></a> }
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-46"></a> }
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-48"></a> template 'user';
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-49"></a>
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-50"></a>##########################################################
<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-51"></a>}; ### end of sub user ###################################
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-53"></a>true;
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<a name="14f0886823c866b1_14f046122001bfd4_l-56"></a>Thanks in advance for any help.
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