Method: Oaf::HTTPServer#get_request_body

Defined in:
lib/oaf/httpserver.rb

#get_request_body(req) ⇒ Object

Safely retrieves the request body, and assumes an empty string if it cannot be retrieved. This helps get around a nasty exception in WEBrick.

Parameters:

req

A WEBrick::HTTPRequest object

Returns:

A string containing the request body



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# File 'lib/oaf/httpserver.rb', line 38

def get_request_body req
  if ['POST', 'PUT'].member? req.request_method
    begin
      result = req.body
    rescue WEBrick::HTTPStatus::LengthRequired
      result = ''  # needs to be in rescue for coverage
    end
  end
  result
end