QueryDict always empty from AJAX POST

Question

I have seen a few of these questions asked but I have tried to implement their solutions and it hasn\'t worked for me.

I am trying to send a basic AJAX request to a

Answer 1

Django doesn't really de-serialize JSON payloads for you. request.POST is meant to be used for HTML posted forms, and the like.

For JSON payloads, you should de-serialize the request body yourself, for example: json.loads(request.body).

(request.body is how you access the raw payload).