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Pat David
Pat David

Reputation: 55

POST request data containing list of dicts

I'm trying to call an API that wants a list of dicts for one value. I build a dict that looks similar to this:

dataset = { 
  'name': 'somename',
  'note': 'somenote',
  'extras': [{'first': 'entry'}]
}

I'm including this in my POST:

r = requests.post("URL_ENDPOINT", data=dataset, headers=headers)

Checking the actual dataset dictionary shows the list of dicts correctly.

{'name': 'somename', 'note': 'somenote', 'extras': [{'spatial': 'test'}]}

But checking the requests object, r.text:

 ... "extras": "first", "type": "dataset"}}, ...

It looks like the list of dicts is being munged in some fashion?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 320

Answers (2)

Pat David
Pat David

Reputation: 55

I’m less than smart - the API wanted the dict to use “key”: and “value”:

I did try a JSOn package and it looks like it would work also. Thank you very much!

Upvotes: 0

Md. Fazlul Hoque
Md. Fazlul Hoque

Reputation: 16187

Try to inject json parameter instead of data

r = requests.post("URL_ENDPOINT", json=dataset, headers=headers)

Upvotes: 0

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