How to retrieve GET vars in python bottle app

Question

I'm trying to make a simple REST api using the Python bottle app. I'm facing a problem in retrieving the GET variables from the request global object. Any suggestions how to retrieve this from the GET request?

Answer 1

They are stored in the request.query object.

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#query-variables

It looks like you can also access them by treating the request.query attribute like a dictionary:

request.query['city'] 

So dict(request.query) would create a dictionary of all the query parameters.

As @mklauber notes, this will not work for multi-byte characters. It looks like the best method is:

my_dict = request.query.decode() 

or:

dict(request.query.decode()) 

to have a dict instead of a <bottle.FormsDict object at 0x000000000391B...> object.

Answer 2

If you want them all:

from urllib.parse import parse_qs  dict = parse_qs(request.query_string) 

If you want one:

one = request.GET.get('one', '').strip()