NAME¶
HTTP::Body - HTTP Body Parser
SYNOPSIS¶
use HTTP::Body;
sub handler : method {
my ( $class, $r ) = @_;
my $content_type = $r->headers_in->get('Content-Type');
my $content_length = $r->headers_in->get('Content-Length');
my $body = HTTP::Body->new( $content_type, $content_length );
my $length = $content_length;
while ( $length ) {
$r->read( my $buffer, ( $length < 8192 ) ? $length : 8192 );
$length -= length($buffer);
$body->add($buffer);
}
my $uploads = $body->upload; # hashref
my $params = $body->param; # hashref
my $param_order = $body->param_order # arrayref
my $body = $body->body; # IO::Handle
}
DESCRIPTION¶
HTTP::Body parses chunks of HTTP POST data and supports
application/octet-stream, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and
multipart/form-data.
Chunked bodies are supported by not passing a length value to
new().
It is currently used by Catalyst to parse POST bodies.
NOTES¶
When parsing multipart bodies, temporary files are created to store any uploaded
files. You must delete these temporary files yourself after processing them,
or set $body->
cleanup(1) to automatically delete them at
DESTROY-time.
METHODS¶
- new
- Constructor. Takes content type and content length as
parameters, returns a HTTP::Body object.
- add
- Add string to internal buffer. Will call spin unless done.
returns length before adding self.
- body
- accessor for the body.
- chunked
- Returns 1 if the request is chunked.
- cleanup
- Set to 1 to enable automatic deletion of temporary files at
DESTROY-time.
- content_length
- Returns the content-length for the body data if known.
Returns -1 if the request is chunked.
- content_type
- Returns the content-type of the body data.
- init
- return self.
- length
- Returns the total length of data we expect to read if
known. In the case of a chunked request, returns the amount of data read
so far.
- trailing_headers
- If a chunked request body had trailing headers,
trailing_headers will return an HTTP::Headers object populated with those
headers.
- spin
- Abstract method to spin the io handle.
- state
- Returns the current state of the parser.
- param
- Get/set body parameters.
- upload
- Get/set file uploads.
- tmpdir
- Specify a different path for temporary files. Defaults to
the system temporary path.
- param_order
- Returns the array ref of the param keys in the order how
they appeared on the body
SUPPORT¶
Since its original creation this module has been taken over by the Catalyst
development team. If you want to contribute patches, these will be your
primary contact points:
IRC:
Join #catalyst-dev on irc.perl.org.
Mailing Lists:
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst-dev
AUTHOR¶
Christian Hansen, "chansen@cpan.org"
Sebastian Riedel, "sri@cpan.org"
Andy Grundman, "andy@hybridized.org"
CONTRIBUTORS¶
Simon Elliott "cpan@papercreatures.com"
Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>
Christian Walde
Torsten Raudssus <torsten@raudssus.de>
LICENSE¶
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as perl itself.