How to retrieve GET vars in python bottle app

Question

I'm trying to make a simple REST api using the Python bottle app. I'm facing a problem in retrieving the GET variables from the request global object. Any suggestions how to retrieve this from the GET request?

Accepted Answer

They are stored in the `request.query` object.

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#query-variables

It looks like you can also access them by treating the `request.query` attribute like a dictionary:

```
request.query['city']
```

So `dict(request.query)` would create a dictionary of all the query parameters.

As @mklauber notes, this will not work for multi-byte characters. It looks like the best method is:

```
my_dict = request.query.decode()
```

or:

```
dict(request.query.decode())
```

to have a `dict` instead of a `<bottle.FormsDict object at 0x000000000391B...>` object.

How to retrieve GET vars in python bottle app

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