I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out what my next steps should be. I am using tastypie to create an API for my web application.
From another application, specifically ifbyphone.com, I am receiving a POST with no headers that looks something like this:
post data:http://myapp.com/api/ callerid=1&someid=2&number=3&result=Answered&phoneid=4
Now, I see in my server logs that this is hitting my server.But tastypie is complaining about the format of the POST.
{"error_message": "The format indicated 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' had no available deserialization method. Please check your
formats
andcontent_types
on your Serializer.", "traceback": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py\"
I also receive the same message when I try to POST raw data using curl, which I "believe" is the same basic process being used by ifbyphone's POST method:
curl -X POST --data 'callerid=1&someid=2&number=3&duration=4&phoneid=5' http://myapp.com/api/
So, assuming my problem is actually what is specified in the error message, and there is no deserialization method, how would I go about writing one?
#### Update ######
With some help from this commit ( https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/commit/7c5ea699ff6a5e8ba0788f23446fa3ac31f1b8bf ) I've been playing around with writing my own serializer, copying the basic framework from the documentation ( https://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/serialization.html#implementing-your-own-serializer )
import urlparse from tastypie.serializers import Serializer class urlencodeSerializer(Serializer): formats = ['json', 'jsonp', 'xml', 'yaml', 'html', 'plist', 'urlencode'] content_types = { 'json': 'application/json', 'jsonp': 'text/javascript', 'xml': 'application/xml', 'yaml': 'text/yaml', 'html': 'text/html', 'plist': 'application/x-plist', 'urlencode': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', } def from_urlencode(self, data,options=None): """ handles basic formencoded url posts """ qs = dict((k, v if len(v)>1 else v[0] ) for k, v in urlparse.parse_qs(data).iteritems()) return qs def to_urlencode(self,content): pass