curl with POST not working, request.POST is empty

Question

I'm attempting to send a post request with some json data using:

curl --verbose -X POST -d @testfile.json http://oururl.com/someapi --header "Content-Type:application/json"

the view on the other end reads request.POST.dict() -- but request.POST is showing up empty (though content length is getting set)! I've used this method before and never had this happen, can't figure out what is going wrong.

Answer 1

You're posting JSON. request.POST is for form-encoded data.

You should be accessing request.body and passing it through json.loads().