405 POST method not allowed
DjangoPostOauthDjango Rest-FrameworkHttp Status-Code-405Django Problem Overview
I'm trying to develop a REST provider with OAuth. I'm using Django RESTFramework and DjangoOAuthToolkit. I did a GET and it works perfectly but I'm trying to use a POST and the server responds with {"detail": "Method 'POST' not allowed."} This is my code:
# views.py
@api_view(['POST'])
def pruebapost(request):
usuario = User()
access_token = Token.objects.get(
key=request.POST['oauth_token']
)
usuario = access_token.user
content = {'saludo': usuario.username}
return Response(content)
# settings.py
OAUTH_AUTHORIZE_VIEW = 'principal.views.oauth_authorize'
SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer'
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
),
'DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.parsers.JSONParser',
),
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.authentication.OAuthAuthentication',
),
}
And I'm using this as a "test" client:
import urlparse
import oauth2 as oauth
import requests
consumer_key = "clave"
consumer_secret = "secreto"
consumer = oauth.Consumer(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
client = oauth.Client(consumer)
resource_url = 'http://blablabla.pythonanywhere.com/prueba'
consumer = oauth.Consumer(key='clave', secret='secreto')
token = oauth.Token(key='e7456187a43141af8d2e0d8fa99b95b9',
secret='3wRIKoacff16tcew')
oauth_request = oauth.Request.from_consumer_and_token(
consumer,
token,
http_method='POST',
http_url=resource_url,
parameters={'hola':'pepe'}
)
oauth_request.sign_request(
oauth.SignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1(),
consumer,
token
)
url = oauth_request.to_url()
response = requests.post(url, oauth_request.to_postdata())
print response.content
I don't understand what REST Framework documentation says about 405 Method not allowed
> "Raised when an incoming request occurs that does not map to a handler method on the view."
Thanks
Django Solutions
Solution 1 - Django
This was resolved in the comments by user2663554
> Problem solved, I miss one slash on the url.
This response code (405) can come from any number of issues, but it generally ends up that either you are using the wrong URL (as in this case), or you are using the wrong request method. Sometimes it's both!
Quite often I see people getting this issue when they are trying to update an individual resource (/api/res/1
), but they are using the list url (/api/res
) which doesn't allow the request to be made. This can also happen in the reverse, where someone is trying to create a new instance, but they are sending a POST
request to the individual object.
In some cases, the wrong url is being used, so users are requesting a standard non-API view and thinking it is an API view (/res
instead of /api/res
). So make sure to always check your urls!
Solution 2 - Django
In my case i had a router with same base url
router.register('sales', SalesViewSet, basename='sales')
and my url patterns was
urlpatterns = [
path('', include((router.urls, app_name))),
path('sales/analytics/', Analytics.as_view(), name='create'),
]
I was getting 405 error for sales/analytics/
. The solution was change the order of urlpatterns.
urlpatterns = [
path('sales/analytics/', Analytics.as_view(), name='create'),
path('', include((router.urls, app_name))),
]
Solution 3 - Django
class ApiIndexView(APIView)
instead of this please "import from rest_framework import generics" and change it to
class ApiIndexView(generics.ListCreateAPIView)
there are many views in generic listcreateAPIview is used for get and post and createapiview is used only for post methods
Solution 4 - Django
My first answer on SO. After trying everything here and being frustrated for the past 6 hours, it finally hit me and I found another reason this might be happening; I, quite simply, was not logged in to /admin. I logged in to /admin and that fixed the "HTTP 405 method not allowed" problem i.e. the post view not coming up. I hope this helps anyone stuck with this kind of issue.