Passing JSONified object to back-end in Django?

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Im trying to turn an Object created in js into JSON and then passed to my back-end in Django.

First I make a list of lists:

function get_account_info(){ var account_list = []; $('.card').each(function(e){ var account = []; account.push($(this).find('.name').val()); account.push($(this).find('.username').val()); account.push($(this).find('.password').val()); if(account[0] != null){ account_list.push(account); } }) return account_list; }

Then I try to post it:

var account_info_json = JSON.parse(get_account_info()); $.ajax({ type:'POST', url:'/create_new_group/create_group/', data:{ csrfmiddlewaretoken:$('input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]').val(), account_info: account_info_json, } , success:function(data){ if(data.status == 1){ //success! console.log('Success!') } else if(data.status == 2){ //failed console.log('Failed!') } }

And this is what I get when I print(json.dumps(request.POST)) in my views.py

{"csrfmiddlewaretoken": "token_data_is_here", "account_info": "[[\"1111111\",\"1111111\",\"1111111\"],[\"222222\",\"222222\",\"222222\"]]"}

I can only acces this data like a stirng, not JSON. How can I make it so I access it like JSON?

Suhas NM · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-10 11:26:44Z

all the data will be converted to string before it is sent, so when it comes to django you need to first convert string to json.

to convert from string to json:

import json str = json.loads(json_data)

to obtain json from string:

import json json_data = json.loads(str)

in your case you need to convert string to json before accessing it as a dictionary in python

hope it helps!!

Adrian Pop · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-10 11:15:38Z

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You have deserialize json string first:

import json account_info = json.loads(request.POST['account_info'])

edited Nov 10, 2018 at 11:15

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