Tornado POST request not detecting json input as argument - json

Question

I have written a service which takes a json as input. I am using the website hurl.it to send post requests to check. Below is my code snippet:
class BatchSemanticSimilarityHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
def post(self):
self.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
self.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', 'true')
self.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS')
self.set_header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers','Origin, Accept, Content-Type, X-Requested-With, X-CSRF-Token')
data = json.loads(self.request.body)
apikey = data["apikey"]
try:
UA = self.request.headers["User-Agent"]
except:
UA = "NA"
if bool(usercoll.find_one({"apikey":apikey})) == True:
sentence = data["sentence"]
sentence_array = data["sentence_array"]
n = data["num_of_results"]
if sentence is None or sentence_array is [] or apikey is None or n is None:
self.set_status(200)
output = {"error":[{"code":334,"message":"Bad Input data"}]}
misscoll.insert({"apitype":"batchsemanticsimilarity","timestamp":datetime.datetime.now(), "ip":self.request.remote_ip, "useragent":UA, "uri":self.request.uri,"apikey":apikey, "output":output, "input":{"s1":sentence,"s2":sentence_array}})
self.write(output)
return
results = nb.get_similar(sentence, sentence_array, apikey, n)
print "results is",results
output = {"similar_sentences": results, 'credits':'ParallelDots'}
hitscoll.insert({"apitype":"batchsemanticsimilarity","timestamp":datetime.datetime.now(), "ip":self.request.remote_ip, "useragent":UA, "uri":self.request.uri,"apikey":apikey, "output":output, "input":{"s1":sentence,"s2":sentence_array}})
self.write(output)
return
else:
rejectcoll.insert({"apitype":"batchsemanticsimilarity","apikey":apikey,"timestamp":datetime.datetime.now(), "ip":self.request.remote_ip, "useragent":UA, "url":self.request.uri})
self.write({"error":[{"code":333,"message": "Bad Authentication data"}]})
return
The json that I am giving as the body of the request is as below:
{
"sentence": "BJP leads in Bengaluru civic body`s poll, all eyes on JD(S)",
"sentence_array": [
"Narendra Modi is the prime minister",
"Sonia Gandhi runs Congress",
"Sachin is a good batsman"
],
"apikey": "DyMe1gSNhvMV1I1b20a7KARYIwuQX5GAQ",
"num_of_results": 2
}
I have verified on jsonlint that this is a valid JSON.
However while sending the request it gives me below error:
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Can anyone please help me sort this out!!

Answer 1

The JSON object that you are passing in POST request is encoded into the url.
JSON library cannot read the encoded data.So you need to decode the url first.
Decoding of url can be done using urlparse library in python.so you need something like this.
post_data=urlparse.parse_qsl(self.request.body)
According to your need of final format to read there are various methods in urlparse.check this
or
As specified in the docs you can override a method to enable JSON parsing
def prepare(self):
if self.request.headers["Content-Type"].startswith("application/json"):
self.json_args = json.loads(self.request.body)
else:
self.json_args = None
check this