net: adding glow.net.send for using other HTTP verbs (thanks to Max N…

…oe max.noe@bbc.co.uk)

src/net/net.js

@@ -263,6 +263,47 @@
 			return makeXhrRequest('POST', url, o);
 		};
 
+		/**
+		@name glow.net.send
+		@function
+		@description Makes a custom HTTP request to a given url
+			Not all HTTP verbs work cross-browser. Use {@link glow.net.get get},
+			{@link glow.net.post post}, {@link glow.net.put put} or
+			{@link glow.net.del del} for 'safe' methods.
+
+		@param {String} method
+			The HTTP method to use for the request. Methods are case sensitive
+			in some browsers.
+		@param {String} url
+			Url to make the request to. This can be a relative path. You cannot make requests
+			for files on other domains, to do that you must put your data in a javascript
+			file and use {@link glow.net.loadScript} to fetch it.
+		@param {Object|String} [data]
+			Data to post, either as a JSON-style object or a urlEncoded string
+		@param {Object} opts
+			Same options as {@link glow.net.get}
+
+		@returns {glow.net.Request|glow.net.Response}
+			A response object for non-defered sync requests, otherwise a
+			request object is returned
+
+		@example
+			glow.net.send('HEAD', 'myFile.html', null, {
+				onLoad: function(response) {
+					// ...
+				}
+			});
+		*/
+		r.send = function(method, url, data, o) {
+			// Ensure that an empty body does not cause a 411 error.
+			data = data || '';
+
+			o = populateOptions(o);
+			o.data = data;
+
+			return makeXhrRequest(method, url, o);
+		};
+
 		/**
 		@name glow.net.put
 		@function
@@ -840,3 +881,4 @@
 	}
 });
 
+

test/glow/net/net.js

@@ -473,3 +473,24 @@ t.test("glow.net.del aync", function() {
 		}
 	);
 });
+
+t.test("glow.net.send", function() {
+	t.expect(2);
+	t.stop();
+	var request = glow.net.send('OPTIONS', "testdata/xhr/verb.php", 'hello=world', {
+		onLoad: function(response) {
+			if ( response.text().slice(0, 2) == '<?' ) {
+				t.start();
+				t.skip("This test requires a web server running PHP5");
+				return;
+			}
+			t.ok(true, "correct callback used");
+			t.equals( response.text(), "OPTIONS: world", "Using put method" );
+			t.start();
+		},
+		onError: function() {
+			t.ok(false, "correct callback used");
+			t.start();
+		}
+	});
+});

test/testdata/xhr/verb.php

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<?php
+
+parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $inputVars);
+echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] . ': ' . $inputVars['hello'];