Added support for POST data in form of YAML or XML, which is controller through the POST_DATA_MARSHAL header

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1303 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_ext.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_ext.rb
index c8ebd57d26..d2973c0c10 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_ext.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_ext.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class CGI #:nodoc:
   end
 
   def request_parameters
-    CGIMethods.parse_request_parameters(params)
+    CGIMethods.parse_request_parameters(params, env_table)
   end
 
   def redirect(where)
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
index 3736353b53..0884d0ab89 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'cgi'
+require 'action_controller/vendor/xml_simple'
 
 # Static methods for parsing the query and request parameters that can be used in
 # a CGI extension class or testing in isolation.
@@ -16,13 +17,13 @@ class CGIMethods #:nodoc:
         v = CGI.unescape(v) unless v.nil?
 
         if k =~ /(.*)\[\]$/
-            if parsed_params.has_key? $1
-                parsed_params[$1] << v
-            else
-                parsed_params[$1] = [v]
-            end
+          if parsed_params.has_key? $1
+            parsed_params[$1] << v
+          else
+            parsed_params[$1] = [v]
+          end
         else
-            parsed_params[k] = v.nil? ? nil : v
+          parsed_params[k] = v.nil? ? nil : v
         end
       }
   
@@ -47,6 +48,18 @@ class CGIMethods #:nodoc:
       return parsed_params
     end
 
+    def self.parse_formatted_request_parameters(format, raw_post_data)
+      case format
+        when :xml
+          return XmlSimple.xml_in(raw_post_data, 'ForceArray' => false)
+        when :yaml
+          return YAML.load(raw_post_data)
+      end
+    rescue Object => e
+      { "exception" => "#{e.message} (#{e.class})", "backtrace" => e.backtrace, 
+        "raw_post_data" => raw_post_data, "format" => format }
+    end
+
   private
     def CGIMethods.get_typed_value(value)
       if value.respond_to?(:content_type) && !value.content_type.empty?