Curl Post Json data not being read in Python Django

Question

Am using curl exe in windows, to communicate with my Django backend.

Following is the command am using.

curl --dump-header - -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data "{\"uid\":12,\"token\":\"asdert\"}" http://localhost:8000/restapi/v1/foo/

Now this give the data in wrong format. i.e. in the view the post is showing this data print request.POST

{"{\"uid\":12,\"access_token\":\"asdert\"}": [""]}

What is the correct way to post json data ?

Edit:

I have tried several other methods for e.g. I am trying to communiate with my rest api using http://slumber.in/.

Even here am getting the same result as above.

import slumber
api = slumber.API("http://localhost/restapi/v1/"
api.foo.post({"uid":"100"})

Excerpts from the view print request.POST

 {u'{"uid": "100"}': [u'']}

P.S. - curl --dump-header - -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data "uid=12&token=asdert" http://localhost:8000/restapi/v1/foo/

This works. But this is not Json format.

No if you print the request.POST in the view it gives a dicitionary with key as the data above and a an empty value. — Akash Deshpande
– Akash Deshpande, Commented Oct 21, 2012 at 9:54

K Z · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-21 10:10:16Z

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I tried your command with http://httpbin.org/post and it worked fine.

Now, your problem is that you should access the incoming JSON data from

request.raw_post_data

instead of request.POST.

(Or if you are using Django 1.4+, use request.body instead as request.raw_post_data is being deprecated)

Detailed code should be something like this:

import json

if request.method == "POST":
    data = json.loads(request.raw_post_data)
    print data

edited Oct 21, 2012 at 10:10

answered Oct 21, 2012 at 9:40

K Z

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Akash Deshpande Over a year ago

It is giving an error that the object is not Json. i.e. No Json object could be decoded

K Z Over a year ago

@AkashDeshpande can you try print request.raw_post_data?

Akash Deshpande Over a year ago

'{uid:1234,access_token:aaa}'

K Z Over a year ago

@AkashDeshpande Interesting, what if you simply use

curl --dump-header - -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"uid":12,"token":"asdert"}' http://localhost:8000/restapi/v1/foo/

instead without the windows-specific hack?

Akash Deshpande Over a year ago

Same as above '{uid:100,access_token:AAA}' I used this command though curl --dump-header - -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"uid":100,"access_token":"AAA"}' localhost:8000/restapi/v1/icrave

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