Ext.data.Store, remoteSort:true and method:'get'

[pbarnes]

Hi all,

Newb ExtJS (2.1) user here, but enjoying it so far. Had a quick question, not sure if it's a bug or not, but wanted to ask to be sure -- I'm trying to populated a xg.GridPanel using what I think is the standard approach: xd.Store w/ xd.HttpProxy and xd.JsonReader (server side is a Rails app). When setting up the Connection options for the xd.HttpProxy I noticed something funky with respect to sorting, where the sort parameter weren't being passed. My code:

var store = new Ext.data.Store({
	proxy: new Ext.data.HttpProxy({
		url: 'http://localhost:3000/categories.json', 
		method:'get',
		headers: {"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"}
	}),
    reader: new Ext.data.JsonReader({
        root: 'categories',
        totalProperty: 'totalCount',
        id: 'catid',
        fields: ['name', 'subcategory_name', 'gl_account', 'summary_gl_account']
    }),
    remoteSort: true,
	sortInfo: {field:'subcategory_name', direction:'desc'}
});

Notice the "method:'get'" line -- the HTTP verb is lower case. When it is, the sort parameters (and therefore I assume paging paramters) DON'T get sent as a part of the URL. If I change it to capital letters, as in "method:'GET'" it does.

I realize that HTTP verbs should (probably?) be upper case, but should this be considered a bug? It took me a while to figure out the issue.

Thanks.

Phil..

[devnull]

GET and POST have always been specified as all caps in any language I have seen.

[NoahK17]

But they are not required to be all in uppercase: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.1

[pbarnes]

Well, I suppose if you're dealing directly with the HTTP request headers, you'd be right I typed it lower case out of habit I guess, as when specifying routes in Rails, you typically specify the parameter as a lower case symbol, such as ":method => :get". If that's the way it is, that's fine, I'd just recommend the framework trapping that and at least logging something - or better yet just upcasing it.