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batman
batman

Reputation: 3685

Python post calls are not working

I have a server running at :

http://localhost:3000/appleconnect

which will accept post calls. So I have written the python code for making http request, but that doesn't work:

import httplib, urllib, json
params = json.load("{'op' : 'sign'}")
headers = {"Content-type": "application/json",
           "Accept": "text/plain"}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost:3000")
conn.request("POST", "/appleconnect",
             params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
data = response.read()
conn.close()

The above is not working. It gives me the error like:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "post.py", line 2, in <module>
    params = json.load("{'op' : 'sign'}")
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 286, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'read'

where I'm making the mistake?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (2)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599450

json.load is for files or file-like objects. For a plain dict, you need json.loads.

Edit

Your string is not valid JSON: for that you need double quotes, not single ones.

But I do not understand why you are doing this at all. It is the wrong way round: loads converts a JSON string to Python objects, but conn.request expects a string in the first place. I suspect you wanted to start with a Python dict, convert it to JSON, and then pass that to the request:

params = json.dumps({'op' : 'sign'})

Upvotes: 1

Stephen Lin
Stephen Lin

Reputation: 4912

You need to use json.loads instead of json.load. As for the second error, you have to make sure your string is a json object first. Try this code:

import httplib, urllib, json
jsonObject = json.dumps("{'op' : 'sign'}")
params = json.loads(jsonObject)
...

Upvotes: 1

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