ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

[Dhaval M]

Thank you in advance for any help (this is my first post to this community)

I am using Django as my application server for my project. I am new to web development so please pardon and feel free to correct me for any mistake.

I am running simple, client server combination where from client I am trying to send JSON data and on the server I am trying to parse it.

SERVER CODE:

def addPatient(request):

     if request.method == 'POST':

        # Convert JSON to python objects and

        # store into the DB

        recJSON = json.loads(request.body)

        #logger.debug("%s",recJSON['SenderID'])

        logger.debug("%s",request.body)

        #print 'Raw Json "%s"' % request.body

        return HttpResponse(json.dumps(request.body),content_type="application/json")

        

But getting an error at json.loads. ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded 

Also I would appreciate if any one can direct me to good tutorial on Django (I already read http://www.djangobook.com/)

I dont know where and what I am doing wrong. I checked the client side message and it is JSON used http://jsonlint.com/ to validate it is JSON data.

Thank you once again.

[Vijay Khemlani]

What is the actual content of request.body? (as in, "print request.body")

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[Bill Freeman]

You probably don't want request.body.  You are probably POSTing the JSON using a form, which means that it shows up as something like request.POST['data'], where you should replace 'data' with the name of the form element (textarea?) where you are putting the JSON.  Posting with a form wraps things up in a multipart form (allowing you to have, among other things, more than one field in a post), and that extra stuff doesn't look line JSON, but the whole is what you get when you use request.body.

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