Mechanize users - Mar 2008 - Mechanize for multi-part form post

Hi,

I''m interested in using Mechanize as a way around manual multipart  
form creation.  But the API is really centered around the idea of a  
form built from a page.  I''d love to see a syntax like:

response = agent.post(''http://www.mydomain.com/upload'',
  :image => File.new(file),
  :title => "My image",
  :description => "an image description")

Basically Mechanize#post would just automagically switch when it saw a  
File object for a post value.  I''m actually doing this for flickr  
uploading, but none of the ruby libraries I''ve tried so far actually  
support uploading without headaches.

Has work been done on this front?  Am I totally off-base?  If the  
answer to both of these is no, perhaps I''ll check out the latest  
mechanize and see if I can work up a patch.

Oh also, I know I could use curb for this, but I really like mechanize  
and also curb isn''t jruby compatible.

Thanks,
Mat

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:46:44PM -0400, Mat Schaffer
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I''m interested in using Mechanize as a way around manual multipart
> form creation.  But the API is really centered around the idea of a  
> form built from a page.  I''d love to see a syntax like:
> 
> response = agent.post(''http://www.mydomain.com/upload'',
>   :image => File.new(file),
>   :title => "My image",
>   :description => "an image description")
> 
> Basically Mechanize#post would just automagically switch when it saw a  
> File object for a post value.  I''m actually doing this for flickr
> uploading, but none of the ruby libraries I''ve tried so far
actually
> support uploading without headaches.
Yes, I like this syntax.
> 
> Has work been done on this front?  Am I totally off-base?  If the  
> answer to both of these is no, perhaps I''ll check out the latest  
> mechanize and see if I can work up a patch.
WWW::Mechanize already has a post method, I''d just have to add the
logic
to auto-detect the IO object and have it automagically post correctly.

I like this feature, so I''ll work on adding it.  :-)

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:
>> Has work been done on this front?  Am I totally off-base?  If the
>> answer to both of these is no, perhaps I''ll check out the
latest
>> mechanize and see if I can work up a patch.
>
> WWW::Mechanize already has a post method, I''d just have to add the
> logic
> to auto-detect the IO object and have it automagically post correctly.
>
> I like this feature, so I''ll work on adding it.  :-)
Sweet!  I was planning on doing some work on my uploading this  
evening, so I''l keep you posted if I come up with any interesting  
developments.  Pleasure talking to you as always, Aaron!
-Mat