Sometimes, we want to parse request.body from POST in Python Django.
In this article, we’ll look at how to parse request.body from POST in Python Django.
How to parse request.body from POST in Python Django?
To parse request.body from POST in Python Django, we can decode request.body into a string.
And then we can call json.loads on the decoded string.
For instance, we write
body_unicode = request.body.decode('utf-8')
body = json.loads(body_unicode)
content = body['content']
in a view function.
We call decode to decode request.body into a JSON string.
Then we call json.loads on the string into a dict.
Conclusion
To parse request.body from POST in Python Django, we can decode request.body into a string.
And then we can call json.loads on the decoded string.
