I’m trying to send a post request to a Swagger API, which is currently on the localhost and keep getting various errors.
The error I’m getting at the moment is: requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
The code I’m executing:
import requests
import json
def create_bucket():
url = "http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/buckets"
headers = {
"content-type": "application/json"
}
params = {
"bucket_name": "test_bucket"
}
response = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, params=params)
print(response.json())
create_bucket()
What am I doing wrong?
Edit:
Tried printing response.content as per request and got an error: b'<!doctype html>\n<html lang=en>\n<title>400 Bad Request</title>\n<h1>Bad Request</h1>\n<p>Failed to decode JSON object: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)</p>\n'
Edit 2:
Solved the problem. Correct approach:
response = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(params))
>Solution :
Per the error, need to encode json properly, try:
response = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, json=params)
requests will do the right thing
or
response = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, params=json.dumps(params))