From: dolio@... (Dan Doel)
Date: 2003-08-05T07:37:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Incompatible changes to cgi.rb in 1.8.0

What about:

  if @cgi.has_key? 'foo'
    ... do stuff
  end


Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<20030804170401.A31567@linnet.org>...
> Hmm, something has changed in CGI which has broken an application - sorry I
> didn't have a chance to test/comment on this before 1.8.0 was released, but
> anyway here's the information now.
> 
> @cgi['foo'][0] used to return nil if parameter 'foo' was not supplied by the
> user. It now returns empty string; so does @cgi['foo']
> 
> This is a bit of a problem, since I have code which says
> 
>    if @cgi['foo'][0]
>      .. do stuff if parameter 'foo' is supplied
>    end
> 
> in lots of places. But in any case, surely "parameter is missing" should be
> represented by nil, since the condition "parameter is present but is an
> empty string" is different?
> 
> The solution I have found is
> 
>    if @cgi.params['foo'][0]
>      .. 
>    endif
> 
> But that seems to be rather against the spirit of the change to the cgi.rb
> module, which was supposed to make accessing parameters *easier*, not more
> convoluted...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian.