Python Post call throwing 400 Bad Request

Question

I am writing a python script which will call a REST POST endpoint but in response I am getting 400 Bad Request where as if I do same request with curl, it returns me 200 OK. Code snippet for python script is below

import httplib,urllib
def printText(txt):
  lines = txt.split('\n')
  for line in lines:
      print line.strip()

httpServ = httplib.HTTPConnection("127.0.0.1", 9100)
httpServ.connect()

params = urllib.urlencode({"externalId": "801411","name": "RD Core","description": "Tenant create","subscriptionType": "MINIMAL","features":   {"capture":False,"correspondence": True,"vault": False}})

 headers = {"Content-type": "application/json"}
 httpServ.request("POST", "/tenants", params, headers)
 response = httpServ.getresponse()
 print response.status, response.reason
 httpServ.close()

and corresponding curl request is

curl -iX POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '
{
    "externalId": "801411",
    "name": "RD Core seed data test",
    "description": "Tenant for Core team  seed data testing",
    "subscriptionType": "MINIMAL",
    "features": {
        "capture": false,
        "correspondence": true,
        "vault": false
    }
}' http://localhost:9100/tenants/

Now I am not able figure out where is the issue in python script.

Answer 1

Try using requests (install with pip install requests) instead of urllib.

Also, enclose your data as JSON in the request body, don't pass them as URL parameters. You are passing JSON data in your curl example as well.

import requests


data = {
    "externalId": "801411",
    "name": "RD Core",
    "description": "Tenant create",
    "subscriptionType": "MINIMAL",
    "features": {
        "capture": False,
        "correspondence": True,
        "vault": False
    }
}

response = requests.post(
    url="http://localhost:9100/tenants/",
    json=data
)

print response.status_code, response.reason

EDIT

From https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests:

Note, the json parameter is ignored if either data or files is passed.

Using the json parameter in the request will change the Content-Type in the header to application/json.

Answer 2

The problem in your code is, you set Content-Type header as application/json and not sending data in json format

 import httplib, json

 httpServ = httplib.HTTPConnection("127.0.0.1", 9100)
 httpServ.connect()
 headers = {"Content-type": "application/json"}
 data = json.dumps({
    "externalId": "801411",
    "name": "RD Core",
    "description": "Tenant create",
    "subscriptionType": "MINIMAL",
    "features": {
        "capture": False,
        "correspondence": True,
        "vault": False
    }
 })
 # here raw data is in json format
 httpServ.request("POST", "/tenants", data, headers)
 response = httpServ.getresponse()
 print response.status, response.reason
 httpServ.close()