JSON Response from Django in Android

Question

I am trying to get a jSON response in Android from my Django based web backend. The response I am getting is

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Answer 1

TL;DR
httpconn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");

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HttpURLConnection's default "Accept" HttpHeader value is text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, /; q=.2

When text/html is used django returns JSON wrapped with HTML. In case when plain JSON is needed, Accept HttpHeader value should be set to 'application/json'

Answer 2

The response was redirecting me to the custom login-page where I had used @csrf_exempt. Further login details were required for code to process the info. I added the login parameter along with my call and the desired response was obtained