How send POST request with form data?

[tit]

Hello. I want send POST request with form data.
All my requests don't send request with :form.
Why?

# encoding: utf-8
require 'airborne'
describe '' do
  it '' do
    post 'http://httpbin.org/post', {}, {params: {foo: 'bar'}}    
    puts json_body # {:args=>{:foo=>"bar"}, :data=>"{}", :files=>{}, :form=>{}, :headers=>{:Accept=>"*/*; q=0.5, application/xml", :"Accept-Encoding"=>"gzip, deflate", :"Content-Length"=>"2", :"Content-Type"=>"application/json", :Host=>"httpbin.org", :"User-Agent"=>"Ruby"}, :json=>{}, :origin=>"195.151.220.177", :url=>"http://httpbin.org/post?foo=bar"}
    post 'http://httpbin.org/post', {foo: 'bar'}
    puts json_body # {:args=>{}, :data=>"{\"foo\":\"bar\"}", :files=>{}, :form=>{}, :headers=>{:Accept=>"*/*; q=0.5, application/xml", :"Accept-Encoding"=>"gzip, deflate", :"Content-Length"=>"13", :"Content-Type"=>"application/json", :Host=>"httpbin.org", :"User-Agent"=>"Ruby"}, :json=>{:foo=>"bar"}, :origin=>"195.151.220.177", :url=>"http://httpbin.org/post"}
  end
end

Soooooory for my bad english. :(

[brooklynDev]

So I'm not sure exactly what the issue you're having is, I apologize in advance if I'm misunderstanding.

When you run this curl command:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"foo":"bar"}' http://httpbin.org/post

You'll notice that you get back the following data from httpbin.org:

{
  "args": {},
  "data": "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}",
  "files": {},
  "form": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Content-Length": "13",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.37.1"
  },
  "json": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
}

When you make the same request using airborne:

post 'http://httpbin.org/post', {foo: 'bar'}

Here's the json_body:

{:args=>{}, :data=>"{\"foo\":\"bar\"}", :files=>{}, :form=>{}, :headers=>{:Accept=>"*/*; q=0.5, application/xml", :"Accept-Encoding"=>"gzip, deflate", :"Content-Length"=>"13", :"Content-Type"=>"application/json", :Host=>"httpbin.org", :"User-Agent"=>"Ruby"}, :json=>{:foo=>"bar"}, :url=>"http://httpbin.org/post"}

which does appear to be the same. I'm not sure what the form property for httpbin.org is supposed to return, but I don't think there's an issue here with airborne.

I'm going to close this issue for now, feel free to close if I misunderstood and you're still having issues.

[Paxa]

Having a same problem. The issue is how to submit data encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead of application/json.

If we follow example from README and send like this:

post 'http://httpbin.org/post', {}, {params: {foo: 'bar'}}

Result will be:

{
  "args": {
    "foo": "bar"
  }, 
  "data": "{}", 
  "files": {}, 
  "form": {}, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*; q=0.5, application/xml", 
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", 
    "Content-Length": "2", 
    "Content-Type": "application/json", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "User-Agent": "Ruby"
  }, 
  "json": {}, 
  "origin": "202.62.16.254", 
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post?foo=bar"
}

As I see option params add data to query string, but how to add data in request body? Same as when we submit form with method="post"

---

After going through source code I found solution to send form data in body:

post('http://httpbin.org/post', {foo: 'bar'}.to_query, 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')

I think there should be a proper documentation for DSL methods with information about attributes and possible types

[henryaj]

I have the same problem. Is there a fix in sight, or do we have to use @Paxa's workaround for the time being?

[jdimmerman]

@brooklynDev @Paxa Were you ever able to come to a consensus as to whether this is an issue? I'm running into the same thing - unable to figure out how to encode the body as application/x-www-form-urlencoded