[basex-talk] Error when passing a value via %rest:form-param in combination with a security function

9 Jan 2025

      In BaseX v11.6 an error occurs when passing a value via "%rest:form-param"
in combination with a security function.

The example below consists of two RESTXQ functions "p:post" and "p:form".
After submitting the form with a value for input "resource-id" the
following error occurs in function "p:post":

Stopped at /usr/local/basex/webapp/ui/problem.xqm, 16/10:
[basex:restxq] Value of "resource-id" must be xs:string, supplied: ().

Example module problem.xqm:

module namespace p = 'problem';

declare
  %perm:check('/p', '{$perm}')
function p:check(
  $perm as map(*)
) as element(rest:response)? {
};

declare
  %rest:path('/p/post')
  %rest:POST
  %rest:form-param("resource-id", "{$resource-id}")
  %output:method('html')
  %output:version('5.0')
function p:post(
  $resource-id    as xs:string
) {
  <div>
    <p>$resource-id={$resource-id}</p>
  </div>
};

declare
  %rest:path('/p/form')
  %rest:GET
  %output:method('html')
  %output:version('5.0')
function p:form() {
  <div>
    <form method="post" action="/p/post">
      <input type="text" name="resource-id" id="resource-id"
required="required"/><br/>
      <button type="submit">Ok</button>
    </form>
  </div>
};

The described behavior is caused by the security function "p:check".

   1. If you remove the security function "p:check" it works fine.
   2. If you replace `%rest:form-param` with `%rest:query-param` it also
   works fine, but that doesn't seem right to me.

Is this a bug or do I something wrong?

Kind regards,
Jan Meijer