2673: Use _method=GET hack to avoid combining request body with GET

method (but still support parameters too long to fit in a query
string).

diff --git a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm
index 31258f51723db253f3e2dbc4dbaf266a7f900279..d5eca9035e7d5497d07b565495f92fe087824ec0 100644 (file)
--- a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm
+++ b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ environment variable, or C<arvados>
 Protocol scheme. Default: C<ARVADOS_API_PROTOCOL_SCHEME> environment
 variable, or C<https>
 
-=item apiToken
+=item authToken
 
 Authorization token. Default: C<ARVADOS_API_TOKEN> environment variable
 

diff --git a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm
index 0faed28d1a41925fc58efc805d9059197a890b0b..07ca763d2b3efd6a3182c072ab92a023307c65a5 100644 (file)
--- a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm
+++ b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm
@@ -32,11 +32,16 @@ sub process_request
 {
     my $self = shift;
     my %req;
-    $req{$self->{'method'}} = $self->{'uri'};
+    my %content;
+    my $method = $self->{'method'};
+    if ($method eq 'GET' || $method eq 'HEAD') {
+        $content{'_method'} = $method;
+        $method = 'POST';
+    }
+    $req{$method} = $self->{'uri'};
     $self->{'req'} = new HTTP::Request (%req);
     $self->{'req'}->header('Authorization' => ('OAuth2 ' . $self->{'authToken'})) if $self->{'authToken'};
     $self->{'req'}->header('Accept' => 'application/json');
-    my %content;
     my ($p, $v);
     while (($p, $v) = each %{$self->{'queryParams'}}) {
         $content{$p} = (ref($v) eq "") ? $v : JSON::encode_json($v);