Json data not reaching Django properly

Question

In my project, the frontend is in Angular2, I'm making a POST request to a Django url like this:

let headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });
let body = JSON.stringify(this.myMetadata);
let req = this.http.post(this.url,body,options)
  .map((res:Response) => res.json())
  .subscribe(
    data => { this.response = data},
    err => console.error(err),
    () => console.log('done')
  );
  return req;

But the Django backend is not receving the data as JSON

if request.method == 'POST':
    logger.info(request.method)
    logger.info(type(request.body))
    logger.info(request.POST)

log dumps show that Django has received the data as string, due to this none of the json methods work on it.

Method:POST
request.body type:<type 'str'>

What is the best way to resolve this?

is there a way to convert a string to a dictionary?

try to use django rest framework, write serializer and it will convert your json to an object — sebb, Sep 14 '16 at 14:57
Possible duplicate of [Where's my JSON data in my incoming Django request?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1208067/wheres-my-json-data-in-my-incoming-django-request) — C.B., Sep 14 '16 at 14:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '16 at 14:58

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Is there a way to convert a string to a dictionary?

Yes just use the json module

import json
...
if request.method == 'POST':
    data = json.loads(request.body)
    logger.info(type(data))

answered Sep 14 '16 at 14:58

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