Merge pull request #333 from saraf/master

Correct 400 response to malformed json in POST

api.php

@@ -1270,6 +1270,15 @@ class PHP_CRUD_API {
 		}
 	}
 
+	protected function exitWith400($type) {
+		if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])) {
+			header('Content-Type:',true,400);
+			die("The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications. ($type)");
+		} else {
+			throw new \Exception("Bad request ($type)");
+		}
+	}
+
 	protected function exitWith422($object) {
 		if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])) {
 			header('Content-Type:',true,422);
@@ -1684,6 +1693,11 @@ class PHP_CRUD_API {
 			$input = false;
 		} else if ($data[0]=='{' || $data[0]=='[') {
 			$input = json_decode($data);
+			$causeCode = json_last_error();
+			if ($causeCode !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
+				$errorString = "Error decoding input JSON. json_last_error code: " . $causeCode;
+				$this->exitWith400($errorString);
+			}
 		} else {
 			parse_str($data, $input);
 			foreach ($input as $key => $value) {

tests/Api.php

@@ -138,4 +138,22 @@ class Api
         }
         return $this;
     }
+
+    public function expectPattern($expectedOutputPattern, $expectedErrorPattern) {
+        $exception = false;
+        ob_start();
+        try {
+            $this->api->executeCommand();
+        } catch (\Exception $e) {
+            $exception = $e->getMessage();
+        }
+        $outputData = ob_get_contents();
+        ob_end_clean();
+        if ($exception) {
+            $this->test->assertRegExp($expectedErrorPattern, $exception);
+        } else {
+            $this->test->assertRegExp($expectedOutputPattern, $outputData);
+        }
+        return $this;
+    }
 }

tests/Tests.php

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ abstract class Tests extends TestBase
     {
         $test = new Api($this);
         $test->post('/posts', '{"}');
-        $test->expect(false, 'Not found (input)');
+        $test->expectPattern(false, '/^Bad request.*$/');
     }
 
     public function testErrorOnDuplicatePrimaryKey()