Re: [mp2]"opaque string-content tables"

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Stas Bekman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:52:19 -0500
> From: Stas Bekman <stas@xxxxxx.xxx>
> To: Jie Gao <J.Gao@xxx.xxxx.xxx.xx>
> Cc: modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: [mp2]"opaque string-content tables"
>
> Jie Gao wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jie Gao wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:26:07 +1100 (EST)
> >>From: Jie Gao <J.Gao@xxx.xxxx.xxx.xx>
> >>To: modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
> >>Subject: [mp2]"opaque string-content tables"
> >>
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>"APR::Table allows its users to manipulate opaque string-content tables."
> >>
> >>What does it mean by "opaque"?
>
>
>
> On the C level that means: you can put in strings and whatever you put in
> your get out.
>
> On the Perl level that means that we convert any scalars into strings and
> store that. Any special information that was in the perl scalar is not
> stored. So for example if a scalar was marked as utf8, that flag is lost.

Thanks for the explanation.

> That explanation should probably live here:
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/APR/Table.html#Description
>
> if the way I've put it is clear, I'll add it there.
>
> > Also a related question about APR::Table:
> >
> > Does a table object contain all the name/value pairs parsed from the
> > request line (with arguments/query strings) and from the body of the
> > request (like from POST), in a situation of a POST form that has a
> > query string at the end of the URL?
> >
> > I know the CGI module does it well, but I do not want to use that
> > module for what I am doing at this time.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are talking about, Jie. Are we talking
> about something like $r->headers_in table? In which case it doesn't have
> any query string data, other than the unparsed one, which you should
> get/set via $r->args anyway. If not, please explain.

Thanks, Stas. I am now parsing both the request body and the $r->args now.

Regards,



Jie