Flask request and application/json content type
Use request.get_json() and set force to True:
@menus.route('/', methods=["PUT", "POST"])def new(): return jsonify(request.get_json(force=True))From the documentation:
By default this function will only load the json data if the mimetype is
application/jsonbut this can be overridden by the force parameter.Parameters:
- force – if set to True the mimetype is ignored.
For older Flask versions, < 0.10, if you want to be forgiving and allow for JSON, always, you can do the decode yourself, explicitly:
from flask import json@menus.route('/', methods=["PUT", "POST"])def new(): return jsonify(json.loads(request.data))
the request object already has a method get_json which can give you the json regardless of the content-type if you execute it with force=True so your code would be something like the following:
@menus.route('/', methods=["PUT", "POST"])def new(): return jsonify(request.get_json(force=True))in fact, the flask documentation says that request.get_json should be used instead of request.json: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/?highlight=json#flask.Request.json