How to access request body when using Django Rest Framework and avoid getting RawPostDataException

Question

I need to get the raw content of POST request body (as a string) yet when I try to access request.body I\'m getting an exception:

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Answer 1

I might be missing something here but I'm pretty sure you don't need to define a custom parser in this case...

You can just use the JSONParser from DRF itself:

    from rest_framework.decorators import api_view
    from rest_framework.decorators import parser_classes
    from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser

    @api_view(['POST']) 
    @parser_classes((JSONParser,)) 
    def example_view(request, format=None):
        """
        A view that can accept POST requests with JSON content.
        """
        return Response({'received data': request.data})