Django POST data in request.body but can not store in variable

Question

I am posting some raw JSON to my backend

{
    "access_token": "hU5C7so4reJOYTzPyhKPs8PWq07tb",
    "id": 3,
    "order_details": [{"meal_id": 1, "quantity": 3}, {"meal_id": 2, "quantity": 2}]
}

However when I try to

print (request.POST.get("access_token")) 

I receive None

But, when I do

print (request.body)

The values seem to there: b'{\n\t"access_token": "hU5C7so4reJOYTzPyhKPs8PWq07tb",\n\t"id": 3,\n\t",\n\t"order_details": [{"meal_id": 1, "quantity": 3}, {"meal_id": 2, "quantity": 2}]\n}'

I am using Postman to post the data.

I want to store the access token into some variable like so:

access_token = request.POST.get("access_token")

with the post data

I am still fairly new to Django, any help would be great.

Answer 1

Request.POST gets populated when you are sending form data. see django doc, and this answer for details. Since, in your case, you are posting 'plain' json, you will find your payload under request.body. You can decode the body from binary to a dict as follows:

import json

body = json.loads(request.body.decode('utf-8'))
access_token = body.get("access_token")

Answer 2

Just doing a json.loads should work.

import json

json_data = json.loads(request.body)