Extracting items out of a QueryDict

You can use - request.data.get("content") This will give you the data directly if in front end (jQuery,Angular) you have NOT used JSON.stringify(data).

Maybe this doesn't fully apply to you. But when I searched for this, your question was the first Stackoverflow question.

I just wanted to get basic POST data out in Django. So just using GET worked fine for me. As the others stated, it might be easier to better format whatever script is creating the query.

Basically I have a AJAX doing a post towards Django, the POST looks a bit like this:

params = name=somename&data=abcdefg
http.send(params);

then in my view.py, i did this :

def somefuntion(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        log.info('POST applied')
        alldata=request.POST
        log.debug(alldata)
        data = alldata.get("data", "0")
        name = alldata.get("name", "0")
        log.info("POST name: " + name)
        log.info("POST data: " + data)

The output of alldata was :

<QueryDict: {u'data': [u'abcdefg'], u'name': [u'somename']}>

and the get commands give :

name: somename
data: abcdefg

This works for multiple values:

dict(MyDict.lists())

Dict keys are query vars, and dict values are lists of query values.

It seems like your client is posting JSON rather than formencoded data. Instead of accessing request.POST, use request.body (request.raw_post_data in versions 1.3 or less) and use json.loads() to convert to a dict.