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CURL.SetOptionPostFields

Sets the post fields.

Component Version macOS Windows Server FileMaker Cloud FileMaker iOS SDK
CURL 2.5 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MBS( "CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; Handle; Value { ; Encoding } )

Parameters

Parameter Description Example value
Handle The CURL session handle. $curl
Value The post data. ""
Encoding Optional
The text encoding for text parameter.
Default is UTF-8.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform.		 "UTF8"

Result

Returns "OK" on success.

Description

Sets the post fields.
Pass a text, which should be the full data to post in an HTTP POST operation.
You can set size with CURL.SetOptionPostFieldSizeLarge or CURL.SetOptionPostFieldSize or simply take automatically from text length.

If you plan to pass a form, maybe check functions like CURL.FormAddKeyValue instead of building post fields yourself.

Examples

Set post field with some XML for SOAP WebService:

MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "<xml>....</xml>"; "UTF-8")

Set post fields:

MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "first=John&last=Smith"; "UTF-8")

Build form:

MBS( "CURL.FormAddKeyValue"; $curl; "login"; "testuser" )
MBS( "CURL.FormAddKeyValue"; $curl; "password"; "xxx" )
MBS( "CURL.FormFinish"; $curl )

Charge with Stripe webservice:

# new session
Set Variable [$curl; Value:MBS("CURL.New")]
# use stripe charge API
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges")]
# set user name
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionUsername"; $curl; "sk_test_ your id here")]
# make a post with given content:
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionPost"; $curl; 1)]
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.SetOptionPostFields"; $curl; "amount=400&currency=usd&description=Charge%20for%20test@example.com&source[object]=card&source[number]=4242424242424242&source[exp_month]=12&source[exp_year]=2017&source[cvc]=123")]
# perform
Set Field [CURL Test::Result; MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl)]
# now check result
Set Field [CURL Test::Text; MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl; "UTF8")]
Set Field [CURL Test::header; MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl)]
# cleanup
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("CURL.Cleanup"; $curl)]

See also

Example Databases


CURL.SetOptionPostFieldSize   -   CURL.SetOptionPostQuote

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