json decod error when using POST in chalice - json

Question

When I try to use app.current_request.json_body in chalice I get a decode error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/task/chalice/app.py",
line 659, in _get_view_function_response
response = view_function(**function_args) File "/var/task/app.py", line 34, in post_item
data = app.current_request.json_body File "/var/task/chalice/app.py", line 303, in json_body
self._json_body = json.loads(self.raw_body) File "/var/lang/lib/python3.6/json/init.py", line 354, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/var/lang/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/var/lang/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char
0)
It doesn't matter how simple the data is. Example: {"Company":"ABC"} or {}.
As can be seen in the following code in the API Gateway all I try to do is return the data that has been sent so I don't think this is the problem:
#app.route('/test', methods=['POST'], content_types=['application/json'], cors=cors_config)
def post_item(data):
data = app.current_request.json_body
return data
Does anyone know what I might have done wrong?

Answer 1

You must remove the data from the parameters of the function.
That is used for pass url parameters.
#app.route('/test', methods=['POST'], content_types=['application/json'], cors=cors_config)
def post_item():
data = app.current_request.json_body
return data