Tornado request.body

Question

My Tornado application accepts POST data through http body request

In my handler I am able to get the request

def post(self):     data = self.request.body 

The data I am getting is in the from of str(dictionary)

Is there a way to receive this data in the form of a Python dictionary?

I don't want to use eval on the server side to convert this string to a Python dictionary.

Answer 1

As an alternative to Eloim's answer, Tornado provides tornado.escape for "Escaping/unescaping HTML, JSON, URLs, and others". Using it should give you exactly what you want:

data = tornado.escape.json_decode(self.request.body) 

Answer 2

You are receiving a JSON string. Decode it with the JSON module

import json  def post(self):     data = json.loads(self.request.body) 

For more info: http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html