Django req.POST always returns False

Question

I am testing a shipstation webhook and I can't seem to get data from the POST request they are sending.

Their webhook docs say that their POST request will contain a body that looks like this:

{"resource_url":"https://ssapiX.shipstation.com/orders?storeID=123456&importBatch=1ab23c4d-12ab-1abc-a1bc-a12b12cdabcd","resource_type":"ORDER_NOTIFY"}

To debug the issue, I went into the Firefox and tried to send this:

And got the same result; req.method = 'POST' and req.POST = False

View controller for myNgrokAddress.ngrok.io/bot/shipstation:

@csrf_exempt
def vc(req):
    print(req.META) //this works but it looks like meta-data for my browser and not from shipstation
    print(req.POST.get('resource_url')) //prints false
    print(req.POST) //prints false


    return HttpResponse('')

When I go to localhost:4040 (the ngrok inspector) the POST body shows up, so something must be incorrectly configured on my django server.

I set ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['myNgrokAdress.ngrok.io', 'localhost'] in my settings.py. Is there something else I need to do?

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

The problem is with the req.POST method.

From the Django docs :

HttpRequest.POST:

A dictionary-like object containing all given HTTP POST parameters, providing that the request contains form data. See the QueryDict documentation below. If you need to access raw or non-form data posted in the request, access this through the HttpRequest.body attribute instead.

Since the data-type being sent is non-form data, you will need to use req.body instead.