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Json.loads (request.body) gives error "No JSON object can be decoded" (Django)

I am creating an app using Django with Django Rest Framework and AngularJS with CoffeScript. I am based on the tutorial https://thinkster.io/brewer/angular-django-tutorial/ . I have a problem passing json from the client side, but I think the problem is clearly in my opinion, because even posting json via DRF api gives the same error - "No JSON object can be decoded" caused by the line data = json.loads(request.body)

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My APIView is the following (clearly the same as in the tutorial):

class LoginView(views.APIView):

    def post(self, request, format=None):
        data = json.loads(request.body)

        email = data.get('email', None)
        password = data.get('password', None)

        account = authenticate(email=email, password=password)

        if account is not None:
            if account.is_active:
                login(request, account)

                serialized = AccountSerializer(account)

                return Response(serialized.data)
            else:
                return Response({
                    'status': 'Unathorized',
                    'message': 'This account has been disabled.'
                }, status=status.HTTP_401_UNATHORIZED)
        else:
            return Response({
                'status': 'Unathorized',
                'message': 'Username/password combination invalid.'
            }, status=status.HTTP_401_UNATHORIZED)

When I try to pass JSON from api and try to print request.body in the console, I have a result like this:

csrfmiddlewaretoken=s2dIiOy7eNUJJfGBRaDAFmJ632kjbokz&_content_type=application%2Fjson&_content=%7B%0D%0A%22email%22%3A+%22example@ex.com%22%2C%0D%0A%22password%22%3A+%22example%22%0D%0A%7

It doesn't seem like valid JSON. Am I correct that there is something wrong with this view? Or should I be looking elsewhere?

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I had the same problem.

    email = request.data.get('email', None)
    password = request.data.get('password', None)


This solved my problem.

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You are not converting your response to real JSON.

Example:



else:
    return Response(json.dumps({
        'status': 'Unathorized',
        'message': 'Username/password combination invalid.'
    }), status=status.HTTP_401_UNATHORIZED)
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You haven't provided your JS code, but it seems that you are submitting the data in a form encoded format and the JSON itself is in the field content

. Thus, you get the following:

data = json.loads(request.POST['content'])
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