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David Chouinard
David Chouinard

Reputation: 6836

Forcing parsing of request with no Content-Type with Rest Framework

I'm writing a Rest Framework view for receiving a JSON POST request. However, the incoming request has no Content-Type header (valid HTTP), and as documented, Rest Framework throws an UnsupportedMediaType and returns a 415 Unsupported Media Type.

I do not control the client. How can I force the request to processed with JSONParser despite no declared content type? (perhaps I can access the underlying request before processing by the parsers?)

Here's is my current (simple) view:

class Callback(APIView):
    # this doesn't help
    # parser_classes = (JSONParser,)
    def post(self, request, format=None):
        # ...operate on request.DATA

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1241

Answers (1)

Tom Christie
Tom Christie

Reputation: 33901

Take a look at writing a custom content negotiation class.

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/content-negotiation#custom-content-negotiation

You'll want to base it on the default implementation, but returning JSONParser if nothing else matches.

Upvotes: 2

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