Question about soup_form_request_new() functions

["Dieter Verfaillie" <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

Hi,

I've been test driving libsoup from Python using PyGObject's
introspection capabilities [1] and have stumbled across an oddity
with the Soup.form_request_new() family of functions:

I've been trying to construct a SoupMessage instance of method=POST,
where the application/x-www-form-urlencoded data should look like
this: series=X&series=Y&series=Z (to simulate a user selecting
multiple OPTION's from a SELECT and submitting the form).

Looking at the soup_form_request_new* family of functions, I've tried:

- form_request_new(): this function doesn't seem to be available [2]
- form_request_new_from_datalist(): looking through the various .gir's
    there's no way I can see how to construct a GData that can be passed
    as a parameter to this function
- form_request_new_from_hash(): Aha! We can pass a Python dict here.
    But then obviously a Python dict can't have multiple keys with the
    same value [3]. I suspect a GHashTable would behave in the same way.

So, any ideas on how I can construct a SoupMessage instance as described?

Thanks,
Dieter

[1] Python 2.7.1, PyGObject 2.28.4, GObject Introspection 0.10.8
and libsoup 2.34.2


[2] ~ $ python -c "import sys;from gi.repository import Soup;  
[sys.stdout.write('%s\n' % x) for x in dir(Soup)];" | grep form_

form_decode
form_decode_multipart
form_encode_datalist
form_encode_hash
form_request_new_from_datalist
form_request_new_from_hash
form_request_new_from_multipart

[3] ~ $ python -c "print {'series': 'X', 'series': 'Y', 'series': 'Z'}"
{'series': 'Z'}


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