From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-05-14T17:50:35+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

Hello --

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Dossy wrote:

> On 2002.05.14, Wakou Aoyama <wakou@fsinet.or.jp> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:39:26AM +0900,
> >  Dossy wrote:
> >
> > > cgi['name'] should return an object of type CGI::Param.
> > > CGI::Param#inspect would return the first value it knows
> > > of.
> >
> > I thought so, too. but, is CGI::Param necessary?
>
> Yes.
>
> > cgi["key"] return first value as String.
> > cgi.params return params as Hash.
> >
> > foo(cgi["key"])
> >
> > cgi.params["key"].each() do |value|
> >   foo(value)
> > end
>
> The problem is when cgi["key"] wants to return an array.
> Then "foo" == cgi["key"] will fail since you're comparing
> a String to an Array.

But see above...

> > cgi["key"] return first value as String.

...so the string comparison would work.


David

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