I try to test a view, I receive a json request from the IPad, the format is:
req = {"custom_decks": [
{
"deck_name": "deck_test",
"updates_last_applied": "1406217357",
"created_date": 1406217380,
"slide_section_ids": [
1
],
"deck_id": 1
}
],
"custom_decks_to_delete": []
}
I checked this in jsonlint and it passed.
I post the req via:
response = self.client.post('/library/api/6.0/user/'+ uuid +
'/store_custom_dec/',content_type='application/json', data=req)
The view return "creation_success": false
The problem is the post method in view doesn't find the key custom_decks.
QueryDict: {u'{"custom_decks": [{"deck_id": 1, "slide_section_ids": [1],
"created_date":1406217380, "deck_name": "deck_test"}],
"custom_decks_to_delete": []}': [u'']}>
The problem is the post method in view doesn't find the key custom_decks.
Because it is converting my dict to QueryDict with one key.
I appreciate all helps.
Thanks
You're posting JSON, which is not the same as form-encoded data. You need to get the value of request.body
and deserialize it:
data = json.loads(request.body)
custom_decks = data['custom_decks']
As I was having problems with getting JSON data from HttpRequest directly with the code of the other answer:
data = json.loads(request.body)
custom_decks = data['custom_decks']
error:
the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'
Here is an update of the other answer for Python version >3:
json_str=((request.body).decode('utf-8'))
json_obj=json.loads(json_str)
Regarding decode('utf-8'), as mention in:
RFC 4627:
"JSON text shall be encoded in Unicode. The default encoding is
UTF-8."
I attached the Python link referred to this specific problem for version >3.
http://bugs.python.org/issue10976
python 3.6
and django 2.0
:
post_json = json.loads(request.body)
custom_decks = post_json.get("custom_decks")
json.loads(s, *, encoding=None,...)
Changed in version 3.6
: s
can now be of type bytes
or bytearray
. The input encoding should be UTF-8
, UTF-16
or UTF-32
.
From python 3.6
NO need request.body.decode('utf-8')
.
Since HttpRequest has a read() method loading JSON from request is actually as simple as:
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
import json
data = json.load(request)
return JsonResponse(data=data)
If you put this up as a view, you can test it and it'll echo any JSON you send back to you.