How to handle posted data in custom endpoint?

[nori_t]

Hello,

I'm quite new to splunk and I'm stuck somewhere...

• My goal:
  Sending data from a Splunk view (a webpage I created from the splunk web interface), process some fields in a custom REST endpoint and store them in the KV store.

• What I have:
  I already have the custom endpoint working, I can handle in py python script flat javascript value received but not enclosed objects.

Javascript (attached to a basic html form created in splunk interface):

    ...
    data['name'] = aJsStringValue; // I can handle this in pyhton
    data['list'][0] = aJsObject; // I failed

    var service = mvc.createService(); 
    service.post('/services/test', data, function(err, response) { 
    ...
    }
    ...

Python:

    ...
    class test(splunk.rest.BaseRestHandler):
        def handle_POST(self):
            try:
                ...
                name = ''
                list = []

                # parse the payload
                payload = self.request['payload']
                for el in payload.split('&'):
                     key, value = el.split('=')
                     if 'name' in key:
                        name = value
                     if 'list' in key:
                        # idk
                ...

• My problem: I want to send a list of dictionaries inside my javascript object but I don't know how to handle it in python. I wanted to use Json and put a String directly as "params" value for the "service.post()" but it is obviously interpreted as an array. I could do a workaround, use "JSON.stringify(data);" and place the string in a simple field "data" but I would like to know if a better way exists?

Note: I can change all the structure if needed.

Thanks.

[arkadyz1]

I couldn't find the ready solution for that, so created my own method - you need to extract both payload and content-type to pass it in:

def parsePayload(contentType, payload):
    posted_parts = {}
    if re.match('application/x-www-form-urlencoded', contentType):
        posted_parts = urlparse.parse_qs(payload)
    elif re.search('form-data', contentType):
        # First, determine the separator (boundary)
        parsedBoundary = re.search('boundary\s*=\s*(?P<boundary>\S+)', contentType)
        boundary = parsedBoundary.group('boundary')
        # Now, split the payload
        # posted_parts = urlparse.parse_qs(payload)
        parts = payload.split('--' + boundary)
        for part in parts:
            try:
                parsedPart = re.search('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="(?P<name>[^"]+)"(\r?\nContent-Type:[^\r\n]*)?(\r?\nContent-Length:[^\r\n]*)?\r?\n\r?\n(?P<content>.*)', part)
                posted_parts[parsedPart.group('name')] = parsedPart.group('content').strip()
                # posted_parts.append({ 'name' : parsedPart.group('name'), 'value' : parsedPart.group('content') })
            except:
                pass
    return posted_parts

[DalJeanis]

If the code is completely working, please mark your answer as accepted so the question will be shown as answered. Thanks for posting the solution!