Django request Post json

Question

I try to test a view, I receive a json request from the IPad, the format is:

req = {\"custom_decks\": [
        {
            \"deck_name\": \"deck_test\",
          


        

Answer 1

As I was having problems with getting JSON data from HttpRequest directly with the code of the other answer:

data = json.loads(request.body)
custom_decks = data['custom_decks']

error:

the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

Here is an update of the other answer for Python version >3:

json_str=((request.body).decode('utf-8'))
json_obj=json.loads(json_str)

Regarding decode('utf-8'), as mention in:

RFC 4627:

"JSON text shall be encoded in Unicode. The default encoding is UTF-8."

I attached the Python link referred to this specific problem for version >3.

http://bugs.python.org/issue10976