Where's my JSON data in my incoming Django request?
PythonAjaxJsonDjangoContent TypePython Problem Overview
I'm trying to process incoming JSON/Ajax requests with Django/Python.
request.is_ajax() is True on the request, but I have no idea where the payload is with the JSON data.
request.POST.dir contains this:
['__class__', '__cmp__', '__contains__', '__copy__', '__deepcopy__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__','__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__str__', '__weakref__', '_assert_mutable', '_encoding', '_get_encoding', '_mutable', '_set_encoding', 'appendlist', 'clear', 'copy', 'encoding', 'fromkeys', 'get', 'getlist', 'has_key', 'items', 'iteritems', 'iterkeys', 'itervalues', 'keys', 'lists', 'pop', 'popitem', 'setdefault', 'setlist', 'setlistdefault', 'update', 'urlencode', 'values']
There are apparently no keys in the request post keys.
When I look at the POST in Firebug, there is JSON data being sent up in the request.
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
If you are posting JSON to Django, I think you want request.body (request.raw_post_data on Django < 1.4). This will give you the raw JSON data sent via the post. From there you can process it further.
Here is an example using JavaScript, jQuery, jquery-json and Django.
JavaScript:
var myEvent = {id: calEvent.id, start: calEvent.start, end: calEvent.end,
allDay: calEvent.allDay };
$.ajax({
url: '/event/save-json/',
type: 'POST',
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
data: $.toJSON(myEvent),
dataType: 'text',
success: function(result) {
alert(result.Result);
}
});
Django:
def save_events_json(request):
if request.is_ajax():
if request.method == 'POST':
print 'Raw Data: "%s"' % request.body
return HttpResponse("OK")
Django < 1.4:
def save_events_json(request):
if request.is_ajax():
if request.method == 'POST':
print 'Raw Data: "%s"' % request.raw_post_data
return HttpResponse("OK")
Solution 2 - Python
I had the same problem. I had been posting a complex JSON response, and I couldn't read my data using the request.POST dictionary.
My JSON POST data was:
//JavaScript code:
//Requires json2.js and jQuery.
var response = {data:[{"a":1, "b":2},{"a":2, "b":2}]}
json_response = JSON.stringify(response); // proper serialization method, read
// http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-strict-mode-json-and-more/
$.post('url',json_response);
In this case you need to use method provided by aurealus. Read the request.body and deserialize it with the json stdlib.
#Django code:
import json
def save_data(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
json_data = json.loads(request.body) # request.raw_post_data w/ Django < 1.4
try:
data = json_data['data']
except KeyError:
HttpResponseServerError("Malformed data!")
HttpResponse("Got json data")
Solution 3 - Python
Method 1
Client : Send as JSON
$.ajax({
url: 'example.com/ajax/',
type: 'POST',
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
processData: false,
data: JSON.stringify({'name':'John', 'age': 42}),
...
});
//Sent as a JSON object {'name':'John', 'age': 42}
Server :
data = json.loads(request.body) # {'name':'John', 'age': 42}
Method 2
Client : Send as x-www-form-urlencoded
(Note: contentType & processData have changed, JSON.stringify is not needed)
$.ajax({
url: 'example.com/ajax/',
type: 'POST',
data: {'name':'John', 'age': 42},
contentType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8', //Default
processData: true,
});
//Sent as a query string name=John&age=42
Server :
data = request.POST # will be <QueryDict: {u'name':u'John', u'age': 42}>
Changed in 1.5+ : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.5/#non-form-data-in-http-requests
> Non-form data in HTTP requests
:
request.POST will no longer include data posted via HTTP requests with
> non form-specific content-types in the header. In prior versions, data
> posted with content-types other than multipart/form-data or
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded would still end up represented in
> the request.POST attribute. Developers wishing to access the raw POST
> data for these cases, should use the request.body attribute instead.
Probably related
Solution 4 - Python
Its important to remember Python 3 has a different way to represent strings - they are byte arrays.
Using Django 1.9 and Python 2.7 and sending the JSON data in the main body (not a header) you would use something like:
mydata = json.loads(request.body)
But for Django 1.9 and Python 3.4 you would use:
mydata = json.loads(request.body.decode("utf-8"))
I just went through this learning curve making my first Py3 Django app!
Solution 5 - Python
request.raw_response is now deprecated. Use request.body instead to process non-conventional form data such as XML payloads, binary images, etc.
Solution 6 - Python
on django 1.6 python 3.3
client
$.ajax({
url: '/urll/',
type: 'POST',
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
data: JSON.stringify(json_object),
dataType: 'json',
success: function(result) {
alert(result.Result);
}
});
server
def urll(request):
if request.is_ajax():
if request.method == 'POST':
print ('Raw Data:', request.body)
print ('type(request.body):', type(request.body)) # this type is bytes
print(json.loads(request.body.decode("utf-8")))
Solution 7 - Python
The HTTP POST payload is just a flat bunch of bytes. Django (like most frameworks) decodes it into a dictionary from either URL encoded parameters, or MIME-multipart encoding. If you just dump the JSON data in the POST content, Django won't decode it. Either do the JSON decoding from the full POST content (not the dictionary); or put the JSON data into a MIME-multipart wrapper.
In short, show the JavaScript code. The problem seems to be there.
Solution 8 - Python
request.raw_post_data has been deprecated. Use request.body instead
Solution 9 - Python
Something like this. It's worked: Request data from client
registerData = {
{% for field in userFields%}
{{ field.name }}: {{ field.name }},
{% endfor %}
}
var request = $.ajax({
url: "{% url 'MainApp:rq-create-account-json' %}",
method: "POST",
async: false,
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
data: JSON.stringify(registerData),
dataType: "json"
});
request.done(function (msg) {
[alert(msg);]
alert(msg.name);
});
request.fail(function (jqXHR, status) {
alert(status);
});
Process request at the server
@csrf_exempt
def rq_create_account_json(request):
if request.is_ajax():
if request.method == 'POST':
json_data = json.loads(request.body)
print(json_data)
return JsonResponse(json_data)
return HttpResponse("Error")
Solution 10 - Python
html code
file name : view.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#mySelect").change(function(){
selected = $("#mySelect option:selected").text()
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
url: '/view/',
data: {
'fruit': selected
},
success: function(result) {
document.write(result)
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<br>
Select your favorite fruit:
<select id="mySelect">
<option value="apple" selected >Select fruit</option>
<option value="apple">Apple</option>
<option value="orange">Orange</option>
<option value="pineapple">Pineapple</option>
<option value="banana">Banana</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Django code:
Inside views.py
def view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
print request.body
data = request.body
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(data))
Solution 11 - Python
If you have set rest_framework.parsers.JSONParser in your django settings Then your json will be in the data attribute of request object.
To access it:
def post(self, request):
json_data = request.data
Solution 12 - Python
Using Angular you should add header to request or add it to module config
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
$http({
url: url,
method: method,
timeout: timeout,
data: data,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
})
Solution 13 - Python
request.POST is just a dictionary-like object, so just index into it with dict syntax.
Assuming your form field is fred, you could do something like this:
if 'fred' in request.POST:
mydata = request.POST['fred']
Alternately, use a form object to deal with the POST data.