I'm trying to figure out how to implement my first RESTful interface using Django and django-rest-interface. I'm having problems with the HTTP PUT requests.
How do I access the parameters of the PUT request? I thought they would be in the request.POST array, as PUT is somewhat similar to POST in my understanding, but that array is always empty.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for the help
request.POST processes form-encoded data into a dictionary, which only makes sense for web browser form submissions. There is no equivalent for PUT, as web browsers don't PUT forms; the data submitted could have any content type. You'll need to get the raw data out of request.raw_post_data, possibly check the content type, and process it however makes sense for your application.
More information in this thread.
if you figure in the dispatch of ResourceBase there are a line like:
elif request_method == 'PUT':
load_put_and_files(request)
return target.update(request, *args, **kwargs)
load_put_and_files let prepare for you the request.PUT with the data y the request.method is PUT, so you dont have to worry about that...
