request.body returns an empty string. Here is a copy of my request
*******************************
<WSGIRequest
path:/blog/,
GET:<QueryDict: {}>,
POST:<QueryDict: {}>,
COOKIES:{'csrftoken': 'ivBhSl6RT0TXdrIrTR9WxGeLwyXmpygN'},
META:{'CCACHE_HASHDIR': '',
'COLORTERM': 'gnome-terminal',
'CONTENT_LENGTH': '0',
'CONTENT_TYPE': 'application/json',
'CVS_RSH': 'ssh',
'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS':
'unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-FukIqsBHiS,guid=2bc53020b746b1753871d45a51ce0be2',
'DESKTOP_SESSION': 'gnome',
'DISPLAY': ':0',
'DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE': 'testviews.settings',
'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1',
'GDMSESSION': 'gnome',
'GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT': 'stderr',
'GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS': 'JS ERROR;JS LOG',
'GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID': 'this-is-deprecated',
'GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL': '/run/user/1000/keyring-wmgVNG',
'GNOME_KEYRING_PID': '1262',
'GPG_AGENT_INFO': '/run/user/1000/keyring-wmgVNG/gpg:0:1',
'HISTCONTROL': 'ignoredups',
'HISTSIZE': '1000',
'HOME': '/home/lucas',
'HOSTNAME': 'localhost.localdomain',
'HTTP_ACCEPT': '*/*',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,deflate,sdch',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'keep-alive',
'HTTP_COOKIE': 'csrftoken=ivBhSl6RT0TXdrIrTR9WxGeLwyXmpygN',
'HTTP_HELLO': 'world',
'HTTP_HOST': '127.0.0.1:8000',
'HTTP_ORIGIN': 'chrome-extension://hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo',
'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.52 Safari/537.36',
'HTTP_WHAT': 'asdf',
'IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP': 'yes',
'IMSETTINGS_MODULE': 'none',
'KRB5CCNAME': 'DIR:/run/user/1000/krb5cc_a3b7d843fdc5b71dcc827ae551ce0bd1',
'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8',
'LESSOPEN': '||/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s',
'LOGNAME': 'lucas',
'LS_COLORS':
'rs=0:di=38;5;27:ln=38;5;51:mh=44;38;5;15:pi=40;38;5;11:so=38;5;13:do=38;5;5:bd=48;5;232;38;5;11:cd=48;5;232;38;5;3:or=48;5;232;38;5;9:mi=05;48;5;232;38;5;15:su=48;5;196;38;5;15:sg=48;5;11;38;5;16:ca=48;5;196;38;5;226:tw=48;5;10;38;5;16:ow=48;5;10;38;5;21:st=48;5;21;38;5;15:ex=38;5;34:*.tar=38;5;9:*.tgz=38;5;9:*.arj=38;5;9:*.taz=38;5;9:*.lzh=38;5;9:*.lzma=38;5;9:*.tlz=38;5;9:*.txz=38;5;9:*.zip=38;5;9:*.z=38;5;9:*.Z=38;5;9:*.dz=38;5;9:*.gz=38;5;9:*.lz=38;5;9:*.xz=38;5;9:*.bz2=38;5;9:*.tbz=38;5;9:*.tbz2=38;5;9:*.bz=38;5;9:*.tz=38;5;9:*.deb=38;5;9:*.rpm=38;5;9:*.jar=38;5;9:*.war=38;5;9:*.ear=38;5;9:*.sar=38;5;9:*.rar=38;5;9:*.ace=38;5;9:*.zoo=38;5;9:*.cpio=38;5;9:*.7z=38;5;9:*.rz=38;5;9:*.jpg=38;5;13:*.jpeg=38;5;13:*.gif=38;5;13:*.bmp=38;5;13:*.pbm=38;5;13:*.pgm=38;5;13:*.ppm=38;5;13:*.tga=38;5;13:*.xbm=38;5;13:*.xpm=38;5;13:*.tif=38;5;13:*.tiff=38;5;13:*.png=38;5;13:*.svg=38;5;13:*.svgz=38;5;13:*.mng=38;5;13:*.pcx=38;5;13:*.mov=38;5;13:*.mpg=38;5;13:*.mpeg=38;5;13:*.m2v=38;5;13:*.mkv=38;5;13:*.ogm=38;5;13:*.mp4=38;5;13:*.m4v=38;5;13:*.mp4v=38;5;13:*.vob=38;5;13:*.qt=38;5;13:*.nuv=38;5;13:*.wmv=38;5;13:*.asf=38;5;13:*.rm=38;5;13:*.rmvb=38;5;13:*.flc=38;5;13:*.avi=38;5;13:*.fli=38;5;13:*.flv=38;5;13:*.gl=38;5;13:*.dl=38;5;13:*.xcf=38;5;13:*.xwd=38;5;13:*.yuv=38;5;13:*.cgm=38;5;13:*.emf=38;5;13:*.axv=38;5;13:*.anx=38;5;13:*.ogv=38;5;13:*.ogx=38;5;13:*.aac=38;5;45:*.au=38;5;45:*.flac=38;5;45:*.mid=38;5;45:*.midi=38;5;45:*.mka=38;5;45:*.mp3=38;5;45:*.mpc=38;5;45:*.ogg=38;5;45:*.ra=38;5;45:*.wav=38;5;45:*.axa=38;5;45:*.oga=38;5;45:*.spx=38;5;45:*.xspf=38;5;45:',
'MAIL': '/var/spool/mail/lucas',
'OLDPWD': '/home/lucas/Programming/Python/Django/TestViews/testviews/blog',
'PATH':
'/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/lucas/.local/bin:/home/lucas/bin',
'PATH_INFO': u'/blog/',
'PWD': '/home/lucas/Programming/Python/Django/TestViews/testviews',
'QTDIR': '/usr/lib64/qt-3.3',
'QTINC': '/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include',
'QTLIB': '/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib',
'QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM_CHECKED': '1',
'QT_IM_MODULE': 'ibus',
'QUERY_STRING': '',
'REMOTE_ADDR': '127.0.0.1',
'REMOTE_HOST': '',
'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST',
'RUN_MAIN': 'true',
'SCRIPT_NAME': u'',
'SERVER_NAME': 'localhost.localdomain',
'SERVER_PORT': '8000',
'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1',
'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.3',
'SESSION_MANAGER':
'local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1264,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1264',
'SHELL': '/bin/bash',
'SHLVL': '2',
'SSH_AUTH_SOCK': '/run/user/1000/keyring-wmgVNG/ssh',
'TERM': 'xterm-256color',
'TZ': 'America/Denver',
'USER': 'lucas',
'USERNAME': 'lucas',
'WINDOWID': '35702123',
'WINDOWPATH': '1',
'XAUTHORITY': '/var/run/gdm/auth-for-lucas-jI22V1/database',
'XDG_MENU_PREFIX': 'gnome-',
'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR': '/run/user/1000',
'XDG_SEAT': 'seat0',
'XDG_SESSION_ID': '2',
'XDG_VTNR': '1',
'XMODIFIERS': '@im=ibus',
'_': '/usr/bin/python',
'wsgi.errors': <open file '<stderr>', mode 'w' at 0x7ffe45b97270>,
'wsgi.file_wrapper': <class wsgiref.util.FileWrapper at 0x1371120>,
'wsgi.input': <socket._fileobject object at 0x7ffe3425ac50>,
'wsgi.multiprocess': False,
'wsgi.multithread': True,
'wsgi.run_once': False,
'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http',
'wsgi.version': (1, 0)}>
On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 3:34:47 PM UTC-6, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar wrote:
>
> Are you sending the JSON document as the body of your POST request? If
> so, you won't see anything in request.POST, because it's only populated for
> requests using application/x-www-form-urlencoded. You probably want to use
> request.body (
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.body)
>
> to get at the raw JSON. To get it as a dictionary object in Python, import
> the json module, then do:
>
> >>> data = json.loads(request.body)
>
> _Nik
>
> On 7/2/2013 2:28 PM, Lucas Simon wrote:
>
> How does this fit in with a large JSON document? There should be a way to
> parse all of this arbitrary data, and filter out the stuff that fits into a
> form
>
> On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 3:08:10 PM UTC-6, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar wrote:
>>
>> That's the expected output, since your URL pattern to that view doesn't
>> contain any arguments. Take a look at the examples in
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/http/urls/ ... the URL
>> patterns with groups will have the matched values passed to the view
>> function as arguments (named groups are passed as kwargs).
>>
>> Likewise, unless you submitted POST data with your request, you should
>> expect request.POST to be empty.
>>
>> _Nik
>>
>> On 7/2/2013 2:03 PM, Lucas Simon wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think I found a bug and was not sure where to post it other than
>> here. I have created a view defined as follows
>>
>> from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
>> from django.views.generic.base import View
>>
>> class TestView(View):
>> def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
>> print "*******************************"
>> print request.POST
>> print args
>> print kwargs
>> print "*******************************"
>> return HttpResponse("hello, world")
>>
>> When I make a post request with CURL or advanced rest framework, the
>> console outputs blank data,
>>
>> *******************************
>> <QueryDict: {}>
>> ()
>> {}
>> *******************************
>> [02/Jul/2013 15:00:39] "POST /blog/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12
>>
>> Also, it is probably worth mentioning that I commented out the csrf
>> middleware. My two urls.py files are define as
>>
>> from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
>>
>> # Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
>> # from django.contrib import admin
>> # admin.autodiscover()
>>
>> urlpatterns = patterns('',
>> url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
>> # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
>> # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
>>
>> # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
>> # url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
>> )
>>
>> and as follows for blog.urls.py
>>
>> from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
>> from .views import *
>>
>> urlpatterns = patterns('',
>> url(r'^$', TestView.as_view()),
>> )
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