I have a function getCode that is called from ajax and returns HttpResponse(json.dumps({'code': 2})). I have one case where this function is called from inside another Python function in an effort to stick to DRY. I am trying to access the HttpResponse in an if statement in this other function like so:
x = getCode(request)
if x['code'] == 2:
# do stuff
How do I parse the HttpResponse object in Python so that I can access the data within as a dict?
It doesn't really sound good and correct to have an overhead of creating an HttpResponse and to call the view from other python function. A code design and structure problem here.
Extract the logic that produces the data in the view into the separate function:
def my_view(request):
data = get_data()
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(data), mimetype='application/json')
Then, call the function directly, not the view:
x = get_data()
if x['code'] == 2:
...
This way you would not need to first dump the data to JSON, make an HttpResponse, load the response content into the python data structure again.
Hope that makes sense for you.
Its a dict access it like this:
if x['code'] == 2:
First get request.
x = getCode(request)
Convert the response to string.
string_data = r.getresponse().read().decode("utf-8")
Convert the string to dict.
dict_data = json.loads(string_data)