gwt: send php post request - php

Question

I am trying to communicate to a php server from my gwt project.
I already got a GET request to work, however, my POST request doesn't work so far.
Here's my code:
Button synchronize = new Button("synchronize ",
new ClickHandler() {
public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {
String myurl = URL
.encode("php/test.php");
RequestBuilder builder = new RequestBuilder(
RequestBuilder.POST, myurl);
JSONObject jsonValue = new JSONObject();
jsonValue.put("name", new JSONString("Abc"));
builder.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
try {
Request request = builder.sendRequest(jsonValue.toString(),
new RequestCallback() {
public void onError(Request request,
Throwable exception) {
processResponse("ERROR");
}
public void onResponseReceived(
Request request,
Response response) {
if (200 == response.getStatusCode()) {
processResponse(response
.getText());
} else {
processResponse("ERROR");
}
}
});
} catch (RequestException e) {
processResponse("ERROR");
}
}
});
public void processResponse(String responseString) {
Window.alert(responseString);
}
I can see that the post request goes out and the request payload is a json-object. However, when I try to access the data in the php script, I get the error that the index name is undefined.
Here's the PHP:
<?php
echo $_POST["name"];
?>
Is there something wrong with my PHP?
Does anyone have a working example for this?

Answer 1

While I haven't checked the PHP documentation so far, I tend to remember, that $POST contains the post request's variables, especially useful in a x-www-form-urlencoded request. .. Checked it, yes. I am right :-)
What you actually want is to read the body of the post request and parse it's JSON content to a PHP array or hash.
To read the body see here: How to get body of a POST in php?
$entityBody = file_get_contents('php://input');
Parsing json is described here: Parsing JSON file with PHP
I will not quote the code from there, as it maybe does not exactly fit your needs, but you look for json_decode($json, TRUE).