Flatten :form hash?

[jjb]

Hi -- I love the library.

What do you think about putting the POST vars hash at the top level instead of pointing at it with :form? There's nothing else in that options hash anyway, and also the word "form" kind of bothers me, since that's device-specific and in this case it's clearly not a form :)

Http.post "http://example.com/resource", {:foo => "42"}

[tarcieri]

:form is there to indicate what you pass to it should be sent encoded as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", and as far as HTTP is concerned, it is sending a form. This is what Net::HTTP originally tried to disambiguate it with a separate method, #post_form.

You can post other things besides forms. For example you should be able to post JSON with:

Http.post "http://example.com/resource", :json => {:foo => "42"}

This would encode the Ruby hash as a JSON object and post it with the type "application/json"

Without toplevel options, how do you disambiguate how the Ruby object should be encoded?

[jjb]

Ah ha, okay -- so I was wrong about it not indicating anything (should have looked at the code first...) -- I guess I assumed that was explicitly set in the headers at the user's discretion -- nice to see that it's automatic. I like the library even more now. This should be in the ruby 2 standard library :)