Data in request.body can't be found by request.data - Django Rest Framework - django

Question

I'm writing a django application. I am trying to call my django rest framework from outside, and expecting an answer.
I use requests to send some data to a function in the DRF like this:
j=[i.json() for i in AttachmentType.objects.annotate(text_len=Length('terms')).filter(text_len__gt=1)]
j = json.dumps(j)
url = settings.WEBSERVICE_URL + '/api/v1/inference'
headers = {
'Content-Disposition': f'attachment; filename={file_name}',
'callback': 'http://localhost',
'type':j,
'x-api-key': settings.WEBSERVICE_API_KEY
}
data = {
'type':j
}
files = {
'file':file
}
response = requests.post(
url,
headers=headers,
files=files,
json=data,
)
In the DRF, i use the request object to get the data.
class InferenceView(APIView):
"""
From a pdf file, extract infos and return it
"""
permission_classes = [HasAPIKey]
def post(self, request):
print("REQUEST FILE",request.FILES)
print("REQUEST DATA",request.data)
callback = request.headers.get('callback', None)
# check correctness of callback
msg, ok = check_callback(callback)
if not ok: # if not ok return bad request
return build_json_response(msg, 400)
# get zip file
zip_file = request.FILES.get('file', None)
parsed = json.loads(request.data.get('type', None).replace("'","\""))
The problem is that the data in the DRF are not received correctly. Whatever I send from the requests.post is not received.
I am sending a file and a JSON together. The file somehow is received, but other data are not.
If I try to do something like
request.data.update({"type":j})
in the DRF, the JSON is correctly added to the data, so it is not a problem with the JSON I'm trying to send itself.
Another thing, request.body shows that the JSON is somehow present in the body, but request.data can't find it.
I don't want to use request.body directly because I can't understand why it is present in the body but not visible with request.data.

Answer 1

In this line
response = requests.post(
url,
headers=headers,
files=files,
json=data,
)
replace json=data with data=data
like this:
response = requests.post(
url,
headers=headers,
files=files,
data=data,
)