Polymer REST backend - rest

Question

I have a backend written in golang exposing /api/list interface. It returns lists when called from GET and create new list when it receive POST with parameters.
I can read it with standard core-ajax element, there is a huge amount of examples to do that.
What I didn't understood is what should I do, when I want to create new element through POST? I read the documentation and searched for sample code for half day, can you point me to right direction?
//
Ok, thanks for help, it was really only bad format of json I was sending. There is still dark cloud in my mind telling that I misunderstood something from conceptual view. Is this:
<link rel="import" href="bower_components/polymer/polymer.html">
<link rel="import" href="bower_components/core-ajax/core-ajax.html">
<polymer-element name="channels-service" attributes="channels">
<template>
<style>
:host {
display: none;
}
</style>
<core-ajax id="ch_load"
auto
url="/api/list"
on-core-response="{{channelsLoaded}}"
handleAs="json">
</core-ajax>
<core-ajax id="ch_update"
url="/api/list"
on-core-response="{{channelsUpdated}}"
method="POST"
handleAs="json">
</core-ajax>
</template>
<script>
Polymer('channels-service', {
created: function() {
this.channels = [];
},
channelsLoaded: function() {
// Make a copy of the loaded data
this.channels = this.$.ch_load.response.slice(0);
},
newChannel: function(ch_name) {
// this.$.ch_update.body = "ch_name";
this.$.ch_update.body = '{"Name":"pitchalist2"}'
this.$.ch_update.go();
},
channelsUpdated: function() {
//window.log(this.$.ch_update.response.slice(0));
}
});
</script>
</polymer-element>
correctly written data layer? It looks very counterintuitive to me and in examples using local data storage it works way easier.

Answer 1

You can send a POST request by setting the method attribute (method="POST") and the body attribute (body='{"my":"data"}'). Indeed you need a second iron-ajax element for this request.
See the attributes section in the iron-ajax documentation.