Get request body as string in Django

Question

I\'m sending a POST request with JSON body to a Django server (fairly standard). On the server I need to decode this using json.loads().

The problem is

Answer 1

If your goal is to end up with a dictionary of the data you have just sent to the server using JSON, save yourself the trouble of decoding the body yourself and use the request.POST dictionary-like object django already provides out-of-the-box.

So suppose you POST this to the server:

{ 'foo': 'bar' }

Then the following method

def my_handler(request):
    foo = request.POST['foo']
    print(foo)

Would print bar to the console