Using a hash for the post data in LWP::useragent?

[Andrew]

Does anyone know of a way to send the post data as reference to a hash
instead of hardcoding the post data into the useragent request? I
have tried using HTTP::Request::Common and Useragent request.

for example:

$ua->request(POST 'www.someurl.com',
[ username => 'bob',
host => 'localhost',
other => '1',
other2 => '2',
other3 => '3',
]);

I would like to to be able to use the same subroutine for multiple
post data hashes by calling

my %posthash = [ username => 'bob',host => 'localhost', other => '1',
other2 => '2', other3 => '3']


$ua->request(POST $url, \%posthash); # something like this



anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Does anyone know of a way to send the post data as reference to a
hash instead of hardcoding the post data into the useragent
request? I have tried using HTTP::Request::Common and Useragent
request.

for example:

$ua->request(POST 'www.someurl.com',
[ username => 'bob',
host => 'localhost',
other => '1',
other2 => '2',
other3 => '3',
]);

Assuming that is correct syntax, you are passing an array reference,
not a hash reference.

I would like to to be able to use the same subroutine for multiple
post data hashes by calling

my %posthash = [ username => 'bob',host => 'localhost',
other => '1', other2 => '2', other3 => '3']

$ua->request(POST $url, \%posthash); # something like this

Try this:

my $postarrayref = [ username => 'bob',host => 'localhost',
other => '1', other2 => '2', other3 => '3' ];

$ua->request(POST $url, $postarrayref);

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