Question

I have a BeautifulSoup.Tag object which I want to transfer in an http post request.
Specifically this is a request a task in google app engine would perform.

This is the code:

taskqueue.add(url=’/maintenance’, method=’post’, params={‘row’: row})

When I receive the request on the other end, the parameter row is a unicode string. How do I get my original object back? As I undersand json eval won’t work for this kind of object, so is there another solution Am I compelled to pass simple objects only?

Answer 1

Hmmm. Beautiful soup is kind of an evaluator. So I can send the object’s html and the reuse beautiful soup.

I did it this way:

taskqueue.add(url='/maintenance', params={'element': str(myObject)})

and then reused soup inside the task itself:

payload = self.request.get(‘element’)

soup = BeautifulSoup(payload)