Friday, 31 May 2019

How to represent complex POST data in python for requests

I'm trying to automate a web form. The payload when I actually run the query in Chrome looks like this on the inspect window...

    data: [{"property":"TimeQuick","value":"Active"},{"property":"TimeQuickDurationOptions","value":3},{"property":"TimeQuickStartDate","value":"05/15/2019 00:00:00"},{"property":"TimeQuickEndDate","value":"05/15/2019 23:59:59"},{"property":"ProviderCode","value":["FPL"]},{"property":"SellerCode","value":[""]},{"property":"Ref","value":""},{"property":"POR","value":["SOCO"]},{"property":"POD","value":["FPC"]},{"property":"Path","value":""},{"property":"ServiceIncrement","value":["DAILY"]},{"property":"TSClass","value":[""]},{"property":"TSType","value":[""]},{"property":"TSWindow","value":""},{"property":"TSPeriod","value":""},{"property":"TSSubClass","value":""},{"property":"Time","value":"Active"},{"property":"TimeDurationOptions","value":3},{"property":"TimeStartDate","value":"05/15/2019 00:00:00"},{"property":"TimeEndDate","value":"05/15/2019 23:59:59"},{"property":"ShowActiveData","value":true},{"property":"DaylightSavings","value":false}]
    sort: [{"property":"TOL","direction":"DESC","root":"data"}]
    pagingEnabled: 1
    page: 1
    limit: 50

I tried to represent that as a python variable like this

    datareq = [
             ('data', 
              {'property':'TimeQuick', 'value':'Active'},
              {"property":"TimeQuickDurationOptions","value":'3'},
              {"property":"TimeQuickStartDate","value":"05/15/2019 00:00:00"},
              {"property":"TimeQuickEndDate","value":"05/15/2019 23:59:59"},
              {"property":"ProviderCode","value":["FPL"]},
              {"property":"SellerCode","value":[""]},
              {"property":"Ref","value":""},
              {"property":"POR","value":["SOCO"]},
              {"property":"POD","value":["FPC"]},
              {"property":"Path","value":""},
              {"property":"ServiceIncrement","value":["DAILY"]},
              {"property":"TSClass","value":[""]},
              {"property":"TSType","value":[""]},
              {"property":"TSWindow","value":""},
              {"property":"TSPeriod","value":""},
              {"property":"TSSubClass","value":""},
              {"property":"Time","value":"Active"},
              {"property":"TimeDurationOptions","value":3},
              {"property":"TimeStartDate","value":"05/15/2019 00:00:00"},
              {"property":"TimeEndDate","value":"05/15/2019 23:59:59"},
              {"property":"ShowActiveData","value":'true'},
              {"property":"DaylightSavings","value":'false'}
              ),
             ('sort',
              {"property":"TOL","direction":"DESC","root":"data"}
              ),
             ('pagingEnabled', 1),
             ('limit', 50)

             ]

When I ran s.post(myurl, data=datareq, cert=mycerts) I got the following error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):

      File "<ipython-input-78-37ee269ebbce>", line 1, in <module>
        logblah=s.post(myurl, data= datareq, cert=mycerts)

      File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\python\requests\sessions.py", line 555, in post
        return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)

      File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\python\requests\sessions.py", line 494, in request
        prep = self.prepare_request(req)

      File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\python\requests\sessions.py", line 437, in prepare_request
        hooks=merge_hooks(request.hooks, self.hooks),

      File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\python\requests\models.py", line 308, in prepare
        self.prepare_body(data, files, json)

      File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\python\requests\models.py", line 499, in prepare_body
        body = self._encode_params(data)

      File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\python\requests\models.py", line 97, in _encode_params
        for k, vs in to_key_val_list(data):

    ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)

I'm assuming the problem is in the way I've structured my datareq variable. What would be the proper way to make that POST?

Edit/Update: I've tried each of Alex and Ivan's suggestions but neither work. They each give me a cryptic message from the server that success=false. If I try them with json=datareq instead of data=datareq then I get a response from the server with 0 results even though it should have many so it seems like that is getting closer but still not all the way.



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