How to extract the data from an ImmutableMultiDict

Question

I receive my data as an ImmutableMultiDict

ImmutableMultiDict([('slim[]', '{"server":[{"status":"SUCCESS"}],"meta":{},"input":{"name":"sample-img.jpg","type":"image/jpeg","size":41319,"width":400,"height":300},"output":{"width":400,"height":300,"image":"data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQ....

I convert that to a dict

data = dict(request.form)

After converting to a dict, I end up with the data in this format.

{
'imageUploaded': 
    ['{     
    "server":[{"status":"SUCCESS"}],
    "meta":{},
    "input":{
                "name":"sample-img.jpg",
                "type":"image/jpeg",
                "size":41319,
                "width":400,
                "height":300
            },
    "output":{"width":400,"height":300,"image":"data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j//WmZyP/2Q=="
        },
    "actions":
            {
                "rotation":0,
                "crop":{"x":0,"y":0,"width":400,"height":300,"type":"manual"},
                "size":
                {
                    "width":640,"height":640
                }
            }
        }']
}

I have tried

data = json.dumps(dict(request.form))
a = json.loads(data)
print(a['imageUploaded']['output']['image'])

But I get this error

TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

Answer 1

So this is the data? (I assume you are pretty-printing it because you can't have multi-lined 'string' values)

{
'imageUploaded': 
    ['{    

Then you need data['imageUploaded'][0] to get the first element of that array.

That appears to be a JSON string, so parse that

import json
inner_data = data['imageUploaded'][0]
inner_data = json.loads(inner_data)

And then, you can inner_data['output']['image']

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