Getting PATCH request parameter in Django

Question

Is it possible to retrieve the request parameters of a HTTP PATCH request in Django? request.method == 'PATCH' is recognised, but I struggle to retrieve the request payload. I've tried request.REQUEST.items(), but this didn't contain any data. I know I could use Django-tastypie, but in this case, I would like to avoid it (and I supposed tastypie is using some Django methods to retrieve this data anyway).

I'm using Django 1.5.1.

Answer 1

You can use a QueryDict class manually. This is class implemented in django and processing all text data received through http request.

Link on the docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/request-response/#django.http.QueryDict

And here is an example of usage:

from django.http import QueryDict

def home_view(request):

    if request.method == 'PATCH':
        data = QueryDict(request.body)
        print data['your_field']