Setting up POST Service - receive-hook data not formatting?

Question

Hey. I'm new to both BitBucket and to git, and I'm struggling. I've got a simple POST service I'm trying to setup based on this code: (walk-through: http://simianstudios.com/blog/post/using-bitbucket-for-automated-deployment-of-multiple-repositories & code: https://gist.github.com/krisnoble/4692643)

It's not firing, and I've managed to work out why - the data in the $_POST variable isn't being accessed correctly. I've setup a `mail` function to email me the output and when I run `implode(',', $_POST)` and output the data, I get this in return:

{"repository": {"website": "", "fork": false, "name": "test", "scm": "git", "owner": "me", "absolute_url": "/me/test/", "slug": "test", "is_private": true}, "user": "me", "truncated": false, "commits": [{"node": "5347dd04bbfd", "files": [{"type": "modified", "file": "index.html"}], "branch": "master", "utctimestamp": "2013-05-25 01:11:41+00:00", "timestamp": "2013-05-25 03:11:41", "raw_node": "5347dd04bbfd7c63e380985a5878dd3f34275994", "message": "testing remote push\n", "size": -1, "author": "me", "parents": ["56eda188f077"], "raw_author": "My Name <me@xxx.com>", "revision": null}], "canon_url": "https://bitbucket.org"}

This doesn't look right and it also means that when i try to access $_POST['payload'] or any other variable combo, it's coming up empty.

What am I doing wrong??

cmtiffani · Answer

thanks for replying. I have emailed him with nothing back yet. I thought I'd ask here, as the question really didn't involve the code that was being questioned. I put the email and output at the very beginning of the code, so that the first thing that happens is the output to email and the $_POST data isn't coming through like i'd expect. I can't figure out how to get the POST data out into a usable format.  The problem is actually separate to the rest of the code.

m_2mnasz · Answer

Hi Tiffani,

Have you emailed the owner of that github repo? Looks like he responds to posts on the blog.

Mary