[FIXED] How to pass a JSON data from React to Django using POST request?

Issue

I have a React frontend which has a state variable that contains an array. I want to pass this state variable onClick to my Django's views.py. What I have so far is something like this:

App.js

const [dataSource, setDataSource] = useState([]); // Where the data is stored in

const requestOptions = {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify(dataSource),
};

const handleSubmit = () => {
    fetch("http://localhost:8000/insert", requestOptions);
};

<Popconfirm onConfirm={handleSubmit}>
    <Button>Submit</Button>
</Popconfirm>

views.py

def insert(request):
     if request.method == 'POST':
           json_data = request.POST.get() 
           # I'm not sure what should I be putting as a parameter for .get() method

     return render(request, 'frontend/index.html')

urls.py

...
urlpatterns = [
     ...
     path('insert/', views.insert),
     ...
]

Am I using the right approach? If it's right, what should I be passing as parameters to the get() method?

*P.s. I'm not using DRF for this approach and I'm building the app where Django and React is in one app (not separate) where the frontend is an app of Django.

Solution

Couple of things before the problem. First you should not use insert as your view name its against the rest conventions, for more read this doc

Second make it fetch("http://localhost:8000/insert/", requestOptions);

Third when you want to get the body all you need to do is

import json
    data = json.loads(request.body)

and you will get the post data as json in your hand

Answered By - aberkb