Question

I am trying to send data in a JSON format to my django app. When I try to use POST as below, I am getting error below. So, What is wrong with my posting way or views method.

Edit:
The error message:

<pre class="exception_value">&#39;Key \&#39;data\&#39; not found in &lt;QueryDict: {u\&#39;{ &quot;data&quot;:\\n        {\\n          &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Something&quot;,\\n          &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Anything&quot;\\n        }\\n}\\n\&#39;: [u\&#39;\&#39;]}&gt;&#39;</pre>
                    <table class="meta">
                        <tr>
                            <th>Request Method:</th>
                            <td>POST</td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <th>Request URL:</th>
                            <td>http://localhost:8000/api/recipes/item_new/</td>

Answer 1

You are posting raw JSON, not form-encoded data. You need to access request.body:

postdata = request.body
postdata = json.loads(postdata)

Note that this was called request.raw_post_data in versions before 1.4.