Question

I am trying to set up a view to received a JSON notification from an API. I’m trying to figure out how to get the JSON data, and I currently have this as a starting point to see that the request is being properly received:

def api_response(request):
    print request
    return HttpResponse('')

I know the JSON object is there because in the print request it shows:

META:{'CONTENT_LENGTH': '178',
[Fri Sep 09 16:42:27 2011] [error]  'CONTENT_TYPE': 'application/json',

However, both of the POST and GET QueryDicts are empty. How would I set up a view to receive the JSON object so I can process it? Thank you.

Answer 1

This is how I did it:

def api_response(request):
    try:
        data=json.loads(request.raw_post_data)
        label=data['label']
        url=data['url']
        print label, url
    except:
        print 'nope'
    return HttpResponse('')