I have written a simple todo app with react acting as a frontend and flask handling CRUD from a DB. The app is using axios to handle the requests; GET
completes fine however when attempting to POST
JSON the flask api returns a 400 error. Here's some condensed sample code.
JS POST function.
function testPost(){
axios.post('http://' window.location.hostname ':8000/todo/', {
title: "test123",
}).then(res => {
console.log(res)
}).catch(err => {
console.log(err)
})
}
Serverside
class Todo(Resource):
def post(self): # create a new todo
conn = pool.getconn()
cur = conn.cursor()
app.logger.info(request.form['title'])
cur.execute("INSERT INTO todo (task, done) VALUES (%s, %s)", (request.form['title'], False))
conn.commit()
app.logger.error(e)
cur.close()
pool.putconn(conn)
Other methods not shown
Then the rest of the server code attaching the resource to the api and the CORS setup (not shown in file order)
app = Flask(__name__)
CORS(app, methods=['POST','GET','PUT','DELETE'])
api = Api(app)
api.add_resource(Todo, '/todo/')
app.run(debug = True, host='0.0.0.0', port=port)
Tests
Using python to test the api works fine, running this in a seperate python file will add to the DB.
response = requests.post(URL "todo/", data={"title": f"test{randint(1, 100)}"})
My best guess is that axios is not adding the data to the request in a way that the backend is unable to process. Before using axios I tried to make the request with XMLHttprequest however this presented the same problem. I swapped to axios on the recommendation of someone else, given its alleged improved simplicity.
CodePudding user response:
request.form['key']
and request.get_json()['key']
are completely different fields python requests in the way I used it posts to the former and js posts to the latter. Modifying the function to use whichever is available fixes this.