I am getting error Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
when trying to decode JSON.
The URL I use for the API call works fine in the browser, but gives this error when done through a curl request. The following is the code I use for the curl request.
The error happens at return simplejson.loads(response_json)
response_json = self.web_fetch(url) response_json = response_json.decode('utf-8') return json.loads(response_json) def web_fetch(self, url): buffer = StringIO() curl = pycurl.Curl() curl.setopt(curl.URL, url) curl.setopt(curl.TIMEOUT, self.timeout) curl.setopt(curl.WRITEFUNCTION, buffer.write) curl.perform() curl.close() response = buffer.getvalue().strip() return response
Full Traceback:
Traceback:
File "/Users/nab/Desktop/myenv2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 111. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/Users/nab/Desktop/pricestore/pricemodels/views.py" in view_category 620. apicall=api.API().search_parts(category_id= str(categoryofpart.api_id), manufacturer = manufacturer, filter = filters, start=(catpage-1)*20, limit=20, sort_by='[["mpn","asc"]]') File "/Users/nab/Desktop/pricestore/pricemodels/api.py" in search_parts 176. return simplejson.loads(response_json) File "/Users/nab/Desktop/myenv2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/__init__.py" in loads 455. return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/Users/nab/Desktop/myenv2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py" in decode 374. obj, end = self.raw_decode(s) File "/Users/nab/Desktop/myenv2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py" in raw_decode 393. return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end()) Exception Type: JSONDecodeError at /pricemodels/2/dir/ Exception Value: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)