Debugging a python requests module 400 error

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I'm doing a post request using python and confluence REST API in order to update confluence pages via a script. I ran into a problem which caused me to receive a 400 error in response to a requests.put(url, data = jsonData, auth = (username, passwd), headers = {'Content-Type' : 'application/json'})

I spent some time on this to discover that the reason for it was me not supplying an incremented version when updating the content. I have managed to make my script work, but that is not the point of this question.

During my attempts to make this work, I swapped from requests to an http.client connection. Using this module, I get a lot more information regarding my error:

b'{"statusCode":400,"data":{"authorized":false,"valid":true,"allowedInReadOnlyMode":true,"errors":[],"successful":false},"message":"Must supply an incremented version when updating Content. No version supplied.","reason":"Bad Request"}'

Is there a way for me to get the same feedback information while using requests? I've turned on logging, but this kind of info is never shown.

Exactly what I needed :) I tried several options but was not aware of this one. Thank you! — Fábio Constantino
– Fábio Constantino, Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 9:30
To get more logs from the requests module assign the request output to a var and print the .text attribute, e.g. var = requests.put(url, data = jsonData, auth = (username, passwd), headers = {'Content-Type' : 'application/json'}) \\ print(var.text) — Aelius
– Aelius, Commented Feb 19, 2024 at 13:46

mazunki · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-17 09:33:52Z

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requests.json()

It outputs everything the requests item returns, as a dictionary.

answered Apr 17, 2019 at 9:33

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