Thanks for the rapid response!!! 
This is a major drawback in the usability of OpenLaszlo in designing XML driven applications. I spent several weeks learning and designing a Laszlo XML driven FGDC metadata editor… and let’s just say that I’m very disappointed with this outcome! Isn’t Laszlo’s strength supposed to be XML driven applications??!!!! Dop!

I’ll follow your suggestion and try to implement a solution on the server side (Apache Cocoon http://cocoon.apache.org/) to decode Laszlo’s xml Post.

I posted my question on the Laszlo forum here: http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=37241#post37241

I hope this will be fixed in a near future!
Cheers
Héryk

I’ve not played about with OpenLaszlo for months, but i’ll see what i can recall.

If you take a look at one of my other posts, specifically http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/2007/08/08/openlaszlo-version-of-the-previous-flex-example/ , then i eventually figured out that the “lzpostbody” parameter was the key.

The code i ended up with is http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/assets/2007/8/8/manage_test.txt .

Keep in mine though that if you are running your app in SOLO mode, then in all likelihood your POST data will automagically be escaped. My solution to that snag here -> http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/2007/08/09/openlaszlo-xml-workaround/ .

Good luck. :)

FYI, here is my dataset…

<dataset name=”dsSendData” src=”$once{‘http://localhost:8080/cocoon/devHeryk/metadata/sendMeta/’ + LzBrowser.getInitArg(‘getMeta’) + ‘.xml’}” request=”false” type=”http”/>

and my 2 attempts with setQueryParam()…

<method name=”sendData” args=”action”>
var dp =canvas.datasets.meta.getPointer();
var d =canvas.datasets.dsSendData;
dp.selectChild();
var sRequest = dp.serialize();
d.setQueryParam(“lzpostbody”,sRequest);
d.setQueryType(“POST”);
d.doRequest();
</method>

and setPostBody()…

<method name=”sendData” args=”action”>
var dp =canvas.datasets.meta.getPointer();
var d =canvas.datasets.dsSendData;
dp.selectChild();
var sRequest = dp.serialize();
d.setPostBody(sRequest);
d.setQueryType(“POST”);
d.doRequest();
</method>

Thanks
Héryk

Thanks very much for the suggestion. It seems to work rather nicely. :)

Regards,

James

In an upcoming release, this will be accessed via a new API on dataset called setPostBody().

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var xmlString = canvas.datasets['theData'].serialize();
datasetForSending.setQueryParam(“xml”, xmlString);
datasetForSending.setQueryType(“POST”);
datasetForSending.doRequest();