Flask with Angular: POST form is empty

Question

I'm sending data via AngularJS POST request:

$http.post('/process', { 'uid': uid, 'action': action }).success(function(response) {
    console.log(response);
});

And trying to get sended values in Flask

@app.route('/process', methods = ['POST'])
def process():
    return json.dumps({ 'data': request.form.get('uid', 'EMPTY') })

And Flask returns back {"data": "EMPTY"} response. request.form is empty. I've tried to get data from request.data, but it's in strange format there.

I'm learning Python and Flask so I want to do this work with native library, without any other packages right now.

why you aren't using request.args? – taskiner Nov 30 '14 at 12:40 — taskiner, Nov 30 '14 at 12:40
@taskiner cause they are for GET requests – mikatakana Nov 30 '14 at 13:29 — mikatakana, Nov 30 '14 at 13:29

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '14 at 13:28

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get_json() method helps me

@app.route('/process', methods = ['POST'])
def process():
    return json.dumps({ 'data': request.get_json().get('uid') })

answered Nov 30 '14 at 13:28

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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If you want to get the data via request.form, you need to have angular send it differently. See this question for details: How can I post data as form data instead of a request payload?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Dec 02 '14 at 01:40

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '15 at 04:35

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Make sure Content-Type is application/json

Here's a tutorial series on using Flask and AngularJS together - http://tutsbucket.com/tutorials/building-a-blog-using-flask-and-angularjs-part-1/

Hope you'll find it useful.

answered Mar 08 '15 at 04:35

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