How to receive json data using HTTP POST request in Django 1.6?

Question

I am learning Django 1.6.
I want to post some JSON using HTTP POST request and I am using Django for this task for learning.
I tried to use request.POST['data'], request.raw_post_data, request.body but none are working for me.
my views.py is

import json from django.http import StreamingHttpResponse def main_page(request):     if request.method=='POST':             received_json_data=json.loads(request.POST['data'])             #received_json_data=json.loads(request.body)             return StreamingHttpResponse('it was post request: '+str(received_json_data))     return StreamingHttpResponse('it was GET request') 

I am posting JSON data using requests module.

import requests   import json url = "http://localhost:8000" data = {'data':[{'key1':'val1'}, {'key2':'val2'}]} headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'} r=requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers) r.text 

r.text should print that message and posted data but I am not able to solve this simple problem. please tell me how to collect posted data in Django 1.6?

Answer 1

You're confusing form-encoded and JSON data here. request.POST['foo'] is for form-encoded data. You are posting raw JSON, so you should use request.body.

received_json_data=json.loads(request.body) 

Answer 2

For python3 you have to decode body first:

received_json_data = json.loads(request.body.decode("utf-8"))