There are lots of question discussing how to get 1 parameter, but how do you get all of the parameters, preserving their order?
There's this way: request.GET.get('q', '') to get 1 parameter.
I need to capture POST requests to my URL, then add a parameter to the URL, and send it right back to confirm it's validity and source. This is for PayPal IPN if you're wondering.
Thanks!
As @Daniel Roseman said you probably don't need to preserve the order, in which case you can just use the request.GET dict
Alternatively you can get the raw querystring:
request.META['QUERY_STRING']
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.META
As Daniel Roseman mentions, order should not be significant between POST or GET request parameters; think of them like key-value pairs rather than a list.
If you want to maintain order, then perhaps pass a list as the value in your POST and grab it in Django:
myData = request.POST.get("myQuery")
Specifically, POST requests don't use the querystring* (see here). POSTs use the request body while GETs use the query string. Note that security-wise, this also means important client information isn't blatantly displayed in the URL -- which is especially important when dealing with payments.
Update: *Apparently, POSTs can use the query string, but they really shouldn't. See this SO post for more.
Yes, order is significant here. This is what I'm going to use:
newParameteres = 'cmd=_notify-validate&' + self.request.POST.urlencode()
req = urllib2.Request("http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr", newParameteres)
