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pythonmongodbflaskpymongo
user2884593
user2884593

Reputation: 1

Inserting a document with PyMongo passed through Flask

I am trying to pass data via an http request through the flask python framework and insert it into mongodb with the help of pymongo.

My code is as such:

from flask import Flask, request
import json
from pymongo import MongoClient
from bson import json_util
from bson.objectid import ObjectId

#setting up the flask app
app=Flask(__name__)

#connecting to mongoDB
client=MongoClient('localhost', 27017)
db = client["test"] #db name
col=db["test"] #collection name

@app.route('/data/insert/', methods=['GET'])
def insert():
    if request.method == 'GET':
        result = request.data('docs')
        col.insert(result)
    return "it worked!\n"

if __name__=='__main__':
    app.run()

I am passing data through the url:

127.0.0.1:5000/data/insert/docs={"hello":"world"}

the weird thing is that it's accepting the data and even spitting it back out when I try to simply return it in string format, but it needs to be converted or accessed in a way that I'm missing.

Ps. I already tried the proper escaped characters for the brackets and double-quotes.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1874

Answers (1)

dm03514
dm03514

Reputation: 55922

I'm guessing that result = request.data('docs') is returning a string,

I believe insert requires a dictionary, not a string

Perhaps, somethign like:

result = json.loads(request.data('docs'))

The above uses python's built in json library to try and parse the docs string into python datatypes. Remember to handle the case if docs is invalid JSON!

Upvotes: 2

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