[web2py] request.post_vars EMPTY

[vivek]

Hi i been using angularjs to develop my front end . I am using http.post to 
send data to web2py. The POST tab under firebug shows a valid JSON being 
posted. 

Now in my controller I believe my request.post_vars is empty. I tried using 
simplejson.loads , but it throws me an error expected string or buffer

I used a simple return statement like this return dict(data = 
request.post_vars) but it returns an empty "data" 

Am not sure which side of the code I should paste here

 
$http.post($scope.url, {"data" : $scope.filter}).
    success(function(data, status){
    $scope.status = status;
    $scope.phmdata = data.data;


    }).
    error(function (data, status){
           $scope.status=status;
       });
    };
Thats my post code. data produces a JSON which i verified using JSON-lint

Please help

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