Extending the request processing web script

1. Open a web browser and enter the URL: http://localhost:8080/share
2. If prompted, log in with the user name admin and password admin.

1. In the Create menu, select Plain Text.
2. Enter the name in the Name field: requestbody.post.json.js
3. Type the following in the content box:

   model.requestcontent = json.get("request");

4. Click Create.

1. In a web browser tab, enter the URL: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index
2. If prompted, log in with the user name admin and password admin.
3. Click Refresh Web Scripts.

Format Readers are not invoked automatically. You have to ask the Web Script Framework to convert the response and provide the resulting object to the controller script. You can do this by creating a controller script with an alternate naming convention:

<web script id>.<httpmethod>.<format>.js

The difference here is that the controller script file name also contains the <format> segment, indicating to the Web Script Framework that requests of the specified format are handled by this controller and require the converted root object.

In the example, you create a new controller script named requestbody.post.json.js to handle JSON posted requests. This controller now has access to the json root object, as provided by the JSON Format Reader, and can extract values directly from the JSON document.

...
model.requestcontent = json.get("request");
...

curl -uadmin:admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary
"{\"request\": \"body\"}" "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/requestbody"

This posts a request body of {"request": "body"} to your web script, which in turn responds with: body

Instead of echoing the complete request as before, the updated controller script extracts the value named request from the JSON document and places it into the web script model, which in this case is the value body.