NAME

       Dancer::Request - interface for accessing incoming requests

DESCRIPTION

       This class implements a common interface for accessing incoming requests in a Dancer
       application.

       In a route handler, the current request object can be accessed by the "request" method,
       like in the following example:

           get '/foo' => sub {
               request->params; # request, params parsed as a hash ref
               request->body; # returns the request body, unparsed
               request->path; # the path requested by the client
               # ...
           };

       A route handler should not read the environment by itself, but should instead use the
       current request object.

PUBLIC INTERFACE

   new()
       The constructor of the class, used internally by Dancer's core to create request objects.

       It uses the environment hash table given to build the request object:

           Dancer::Request->new(env => \%ENV);

       It also accepts the "is_forward" boolean flag, if the new request object is the result of
       a forward.

   init()
       Used internally to define some default values and parse parameters.

   new_for_request($method, $path, $params, $body, $headers)
       An alternate constructor convenient for test scripts which creates a request object with
       the arguments given.

   forward($request, $new_location)
       Create a new request which is a clone of the current one, apart from the path location,
       which points instead to the new location.  This is used internally to chain requests using
       the forward keyword.

       Note that the new location should be a hash reference. Only one key is required, the
       "to_url", that should point to the URL that forward will use. Optional values are the key
       "params" to a hash of parameters to be added to the current request parameters, and the
       key "options" that points to a hash of options about the redirect (for instance, "method"
       pointing to a new request method).

   to_string()
       Return a string representing the request object (eg: "GET /some/path")

   method()
       Return the HTTP method used by the client to access the application.

       While this method returns the method string as provided by the environment, it's better to
       use one of the following boolean accessors if you want to inspect the requested method.

   address()
       Return the IP address of the client.

   remote_host()
       Return the remote host of the client. This only works with web servers configured to do a
       reverse DNS lookup on the client's IP address.

   protocol()
       Return the protocol (HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1) used for the request.

   port()
       Return the port of the server.

   uri()
       An alias to request_uri()

   request_uri()
       Return the raw, undecoded request URI path.

   user()
       Return remote user if defined.

   script_name()
       Return script_name from the environment.

   scheme()
       Return the scheme of the request

   secure()
       Return true of false, indicating whether the connection is secure

   is_get()
       Return true if the method requested by the client is 'GET'

   is_head()
       Return true if the method requested by the client is 'HEAD'

   is_patch()
       Return true if the method requested by the client is 'PATCH'

   is_post()
       Return true if the method requested by the client is 'POST'

   is_put()
       Return true if the method requested by the client is 'PUT'

   is_delete()
       Return true if the method requested by the client is 'DELETE'

   path()
       Return the path requested by the client.

   base()
       Returns an absolute URI for the base of the application.  Returns a URI object (which
       stringifies to the URL, as you'd expect).

   uri_base()
       Same thing as "base" above, except it removes the last trailing slash in the path if it is
       the only path.

       This means that if your base is http://myserver/, "uri_base" will return http://myserver
       (notice no trailing slash). This is considered very useful when using templates to do the
       following thing:

           <link rel="stylesheet" href="<% request.uri_base %>/css/style.css" />

   uri_for(path, params)
       Constructs a URI from the base and the passed path.  If params (hashref) is supplied,
       these are added to the query string of the uri.  If the base is
       "http://localhost:5000/foo", "request->uri_for('/bar', { baz => 'baz' })" would return
       "http://localhost:5000/foo/bar?baz=baz".  Returns a URI object (which stringifies to the
       URL, as you'd expect).

   params($source)
       Called in scalar context, returns a hashref of params, either from the specified source
       (see below for more info on that) or merging all sources.

       So, you can use, for instance:

           my $foo = params->{foo}

       If called in list context, returns a list of key => value pairs, so you could use:

           my %allparams = params;

       If the incoming form data contains multiple values for the same key, they will be returned
       as an arrayref.

       Fetching only params from a given source

       If a required source isn't specified, a mixed hashref (or list of key value pairs, in list
       context) will be returned; this will contain params from all sources (route, query, body).

       In practical terms, this means that if the param "foo" is passed both on the querystring
       and in a POST body, you can only access one of them.

       If you want to see only params from a given source, you can say so by passing the $source
       param to "params()":

           my %querystring_params = params('query');
           my %route_params       = params('route');
           my %post_params        = params('body');

       If source equals "route", then only params parsed from the route pattern are returned.

       If source equals "query", then only params parsed from the query string are returned.

       If source equals "body", then only params sent in the request body will be returned.

       If another value is given for $source, then an exception is triggered.

   Vars
       Alias to the "params" accessor, for backward-compatibility with "CGI" interface.

   request_method
       Alias to the "method" accessor, for backward-compatibility with "CGI" interface.

   input_handle
       Alias to the PSGI input handle ("<request->env->{psgi.input}>")

   content_type()
       Return the content type of the request.

   content_length()
       Return the content length of the request.

   header($name)
       Return the value of the given header, if present. If the header has multiple values,
       returns an the list of values if called in list context, the first one in scalar.

   body()
       Return the raw body of the request, unparsed.

       If you need to access the body of the request, you have to use this accessor and should
       not try to read "psgi.input" by hand. "Dancer::Request" already did it for you and kept
       the raw body untouched in there.

   is_ajax()
       Return true if the value of the header "X-Requested-With" is XMLHttpRequest.

   env()
       Return the current environment as a hashref.

       Note that a request's environment is not always reflected by the global variable %ENV
       (e.g., when running via Plack::Handler::FCGI). In consequence, it is recommended to always
       rely on the values returned by "env()", and not to access %ENV directly.

   uploads()
       Returns a reference to a hash containing uploads. Values can be either a
       Dancer::Request::Upload object, or an arrayref of Dancer::Request::Upload objects.

       You should probably use the "upload($name)" accessor instead of manually accessing the
       "uploads" hash table.

   upload($name)
       Context-aware accessor for uploads. It's a wrapper around an access to the hash table
       provided by "uploads()". It looks at the calling context and returns a corresponding
       value.

       If you have many file uploads under the same name, and call "upload('name')" in an array
       context, the accessor will unroll the ARRAY ref for you:

           my @uploads = request->upload('many_uploads'); # OK

       Whereas with a manual access to the hash table, you'll end up with one element in
       @uploads, being the ARRAY ref:

           my @uploads = request->uploads->{'many_uploads'}; # $uploads[0]: ARRAY(0xXXXXX)

       That is why this accessor should be used instead of a manual access to "uploads".

Values

       Given a request to http://perldancer.org:5000/request-methods?a=1 these are the values
       returned by the various request->  method calls:

         base         http://perldancer.org:5000/
         uri_base     http://perldancer.org:5000
         uri          /request-methods?a=1
         request_uri  /request-methods?a=1
         path         /request-methods
         method       GET
         port         5000
         protocol     HTTP/1.1
         scheme       http

HTTP environment variables

       All HTTP environment variables that are in %ENV will be provided in the Dancer::Request
       object through specific accessors, here are those supported:

       "accept"
       "accept_charset"
       "accept_encoding"
       "accept_language"
       "accept_type"
       "agent" (alias for "user_agent")
       "connection"
       "forwarded_for_address"
       "forwarded_protocol"
       "forwarded_host"
       "host"
       "keep_alive"
       "path_info"
       "referer"
       "remote_address"
       "request_base"
       "user_agent"

AUTHORS

       This module has been written by Alexis Sukrieh and was mostly inspired by Plack::Request,
       written by Tatsuiko Miyagawa.

       Tatsuiko Miyagawa also gave a hand for the PSGI interface.

LICENCE

       This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Dancer