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I need to POST a JSON from a client to a server. I'm using Python 2.7.1 and simplejson. The client is using Requests. The server is CherryPy. I can GET a hard-coded JSON from the server (code not shown), but when I try to POST a JSON to the server, I get "400 Bad Request".
Here is my client code:
data = {'sender': 'Alice',
'receiver': 'Bob',
'message': 'We did it!'}
data_json = simplejson.dumps(data)
payload = {'json_payload': data_json}
r = requests.post("http://localhost:8080", data=payload)
Here is the server code.
class Root(object):
def __init__(self, content):
self.content = content
print self.content # this works
exposed = True
def GET(self):
cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
return simplejson.dumps(self.content)
def POST(self):
self.content = simplejson.loads(cherrypy.request.body.read())
Any ideas?
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Starting with Requests version 2.4.2, you can use the json= parameter (which takes a dictionary) instead of data= (which takes a string) in the call:
>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', json={"key": "value"})
>>> r.status_code
>>> r.json()
{'args': {},
'data': '{"key": "value"}',
'files': {},
'form': {},
'headers': {'Accept': '*/*',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'Connection': 'close',
'Content-Length': '16',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Host': 'httpbin.org',
'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.4.3 CPython/3.4.0',
'X-Request-Id': 'xx-xx-xx'},
'json': {'key': 'value'},
'origin': 'x.x.x.x',
'url': 'http://httpbin.org/post'}
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url = "http://localhost:8080"
data = {'sender': 'Alice', 'receiver': 'Bob', 'message': 'We did it!'}
headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)
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From requests 2.4.2 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests), the "json" parameter is supported. No need to specify "Content-Type". So the shorter version:
requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', json={'test': 'cheers'})
Which parameter between data / json / files you need to use depends on a request header named Content-Type (you can check this through the developer tools of your browser).
When the Content-Type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, use data=:
requests.post(url, data=json_obj)
When the Content-Type is application/json, you can either just use json= or use data= and set the Content-Type yourself:
requests.post(url, json=json_obj)
requests.post(url, data=jsonstr, headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"})
When the Content-Type is multipart/form-data, it's used to upload files, so use files=:
requests.post(url, files=xxxx)
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headers = {"charset": "utf-8", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
url = 'http://localhost:PORT_NUM/FILE.php'
r = requests.post(url, json=YOUR_JSON_DATA, headers=headers)
print(r.text)
'receiver': 'Bob',
'message': 'We did it!'}
r = requests.post("http://localhost:8080", json={'json_payload': data})
server:
class Root(object):
def __init__(self, content):
self.content = content
print self.content # this works
exposed = True
def GET(self):
cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
return simplejson.dumps(self.content)
@cherrypy.tools.json_in()
@cherrypy.tools.json_out()
def POST(self):
self.content = cherrypy.request.json
return {'status': 'success', 'message': 'updated'}
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With current requests you can pass in any data structure that dumps to valid JSON , with the json parameter, not just dictionaries (as falsely claimed by the answer by Zeyang Lin).
import requests
r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', json=[1, 2, {"a": 3}])
this is particularly useful if you need to order elements in the response.
I solved it this way:
from flask import Flask, request
from flask_restful import Resource, Api
req = request.json
if not req :
req = request.form
req['value']
It always recommended that we need to have the ability to read the JSON file and parse an object as a request body. We are not going to parse the raw data in the request so the following method will help you to resolve it.
def POST_request():
with open("FILE PATH", "r") as data:
JSON_Body = data.read()
response = requests.post(url="URL", data=JSON_Body)
assert response.status_code == 200
