Sending post data from angularjs to django as JSON and not as raw content

Question

I have a request like this:

$http({      method: 'POST',      url: '/url/',      data: 'test=data' }) 

In my django views:

class SomeClass(View):     def get(self, request):         return HttpResponse("Hello")     def post(self, request):         print request.post         print request.body         return HttpResponse("Done") 

So when I do request.POST I get an empty query dict :<QueryDict: {}>

But my request.body has: test=data

So I believe django receives the data as url-encoded parameters and not as a dictionary.

How do I send or receive this data as JSON/Dict ?

Answer 1

When calling ajax, you recieve encoded json string in request body, so you need to decode it using python's json module to get python dict:

json.loads(request.body)