Json object in URI - json

Question

I am trying to query my elastic search server in python, If I hard coded the url and query string like below in my python (search()) script working fine no issues. If I want to store those url and query in a separate xml file (property file). I'm not getting the results instead I got the below error:
text '{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"parsing_exception","reason":"Expected [START_OBJECT] but found [VALUE_STRING]","line":1,"col":1}],"type":"parsing_exception","reason":"Expected [START_OBJECT] but found [VALUE_STRING]","line":1,"col":1},"status":400}' str
Here is my code I am using
def search():
url="http://0.0.0.0/logstash-pse*/_search/"
query={ "size": 0, "aggs": { "2": { "date_histogram": { "field": "#timestamp", "interval": "30m", "time_zone": "America/Chicago", "min_doc_count": 1 }, "aggs": { "3": { "terms": { "field": "queryname.keyword", "size": 100, "order": { "1.90": "desc" } }, "aggs": { "1": { "percentiles": { "field": "queryResponseTime", "percents": [ 90 ], "keyed": "false" } } } } } } }, "query": { "bool": { "must": [ { "query_string": { "query": "path: \"/store_locator/\"", "analyze_wildcard": "true" } }, { "query_string": { "analyze_wildcard": "true", "query": "*" } }, { "range": { "#timestamp": { "gte": 1527181463371, "lte": 1527267863371, "format": "epoch_millis" } } } ], "must_not": [] } }, "highlight": { "pre_tags": [ "#kibana-highlighted-field#" ], "post_tags": [ "#/kibana-highlighted-field#" ], "fields": { "*": { "highlight_query": { "bool": { "must": [ { "query_string": { "query": "path: \"/store_locator/\"", "analyze_wildcard": "true", "all_fields": "true" } }, { "query_string": { "analyze_wildcard": "true", "query": "*", "all_fields": "true" } }, { "range": { "#timestamp": { "gte": 1527181463371, "lte": 1527267863371, "format": "epoch_millis" } } } ], "must_not": [] } } } }, "fragment_size": 2147483647 }, "_source": { "excludes": [] }, "version": "true"}
response = requests.post(url, auth=(user, password), verify=False,json=query)
XML property file I am using like the below:
<custom>
<url>the above url goes here</url>
<query> above query </query>
</custom>
Any idea what I am missing?, Much appreciated

Answer 1

Able to figure it out with few exercise on my own. In case if someone is looking for:
I just used the below
response = requests.post(url, auth=(user, password), verify=False,json=json.loads(query))