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gmccoy
gmccoy

Reputation: 197

Finding JSON POST format of an API

I'm trying to figure out the format to post data to an old undocumented API built with django python.

The API using the following code to extract the POST:

ids = json.loads(request.POST.get("data", "[]"))

The ids is a array of ints

The following script works to post to the API:

  data = dict(data="[1,3]")                                                               
  r = requests.post("http://apiurl", auth=("user", "pass"), data=data)

The following doesn't work:

data = dict(data="[1,3]")
data = json.dumps(data)
r = requests.post("http://apiurl", auth=("user", "pass"), data=data)

How would I figure out the json a third party would need to post to this API to use it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 238

Answers (1)

KePe
KePe

Reputation: 581

In[2]: import json
In[3]: data = dict(data="[1,3]")
In[4]: data
Out[4]: {'data': '[1,3]'}
In[5]: json.dumps(data)
Out[5]: '{"data": "[1,3]"}'

json.dumps(data) returns string.

From requests doc

:param data: (optional) Dictionary, bytes, or file-like object to send in the body of the :class:Request.

So API you use handle correctly post request with json:

{"data": "[list of ints]"}
#e.g.
{"data": "[2,3,4,5]"}

and that's you can figure out the third party.

Upvotes: 1

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