Feature Request: .withForm() and .withFormData()

[estaylorco]

I'm submitting a feature request

• Library Version:
  aurelia-http-client 1.0.4

Please tell us about your environment:

• Operating System:
  macOS Sierra 10.12.3

• Node Version:
  7.3.0

• NPM Version:
  3.10.10

• JSPM OR Webpack AND Version
  JSPM 0.16.52

• Browser:
  all (browser-agnostic)

• Language:
  ESNext

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
  The fluent API for building HTTP requests is fantastic, but I would like to suggest an enhancement: .withForm() and .withFormData().

I realize that we can simply create a FormData object, according to the xhr2 spec, and then submit that using HttpClient::post(). But it would be both convenient and semantic to do this:

.withForm(formElement, formDataObject?)

or

.withFormData(formDataObject)

and then have that translated by http-client into a FormData instance behind the scenes. The former addresses those instances where the form data is built up from a an HTML form (with the optional ability to append additional data, according to the spec); and the latter addresses those instances where no HTML form is involved at all.

As it stands now, from looking at http-client, there's nothing connecting the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type to the API semantically. One might wrestle for quite a while, as I did, with .withParams() and .withContent() to try to effect such a request, but with no success.

Just a suggestion...

[Alexander-Taran]

Would you like to provide a pull request for it @estaylorco ?

[Alexander-Taran]

silence was the answer.. (-:

@bigopon