How to parse an Angular POST request in WebApp2

Question

How do I get data from my Angular POST request in Google App Engine WebApp2? self.request.body returns a string, and self.request.get(key) returns not

Answer 1

Judging from your first print, it seems that Angular is sending the data in JSON format. Webapp2 will not parse this data for you. For your particular request, you can do:

import json
d = json.loads(self.request.body)
v = d.get(key)

If you want to be able to access the POST data using self.request.POST.get(key), you probably need to submit the data as form data. See this SO answer for more information about that.

Answer 2

You can try this:

 self.request.POST.get(key) # POST requests
 self.request.GET.get(key)  # GET requests

Answer 3

I always use self.request.get and able to get the data from GET/POST method, maybe you send the data in different format that only accessible by self.request.body?