Question

As with the command line in Pylons call the REST function from controller such as update? How to pass a request.POST to update function?

Answer 1

You need to use paster’s post command. Below, I post to /login/attempt of a local app I’ve wrote.

$ paster post development.ini /login/attempt email_address=me password=invalid

## It returns this JSON
{"status": "fail", "value": "me is not a registered email address."}

Here is the docs for paster post –

Usage: C:\cygwin\home\jaime\virtualenv\sstesting\Scripts\paster-script.py post [options] CONFIG
_FILE URL [OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS]
Run a request for the described application

This command makes an artifical request to a web application that uses
a paste.deploy configuration file for the server and application. Use
‘paster request config.ini /url’ to request /url. Use ‘paster post
config.ini /url < data’ to do a POST with the given request body. If
the URL is relative (doesn’t begin with /) it is interpreted as
relative to /.command/. The variable environ[‘paste.command_request’]
will be set to True in the request, so your application can
distinguish these calls from normal requests. Note that you can pass
options besides the options listed here; any unknown options will be
passed to the application in environ[‘QUERY_STRING’].

Options: -h, –help show this help message and exit -v,
–verbose -q, –quiet -n NAME, –app-name=NAME
Load the named application (default main) –config-var=NAME:VALUE
Variable to make available in the config for %()s
substitution (you can use this option multiple times) –header=NAME:VALUE Header to add to request (you can use
this option
multiple times) –display-headers Display headers before the response body