I tried looking around for an answer and gave it a great many tries, but there's something strange going on here. I got some functions in my view that operate on JSON data that comes in via AJAX. Currently I'm trying to do some unit testing on these.
In my test case I have:
kwargs = {'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH': 'XMLHttpRequest'}
url = '/<correct_url>/upload/'
data = {
"id" : p.id
}
c = Client()
response = c.delete(url, data, **kwargs)
content_unicode = response.content.decode('utf-8')
content = json.loads(content_unicode)
p.id is just an integer that comes from a model I'm using.
I then have a function that is being tested, parts of which looks like follows:
def delete_ajax(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
print (request.body)
body_unicode = request.body.decode('utf-8')
print (body_unicode)
body_json = json.loads(body_unicode)
The first print statement yields:
.....b"{'id': 1}"
The other one:
{'id': 1}
and finally I get an error for fourth line as follows:
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
What's going wrong here? I understand that correct JSON format should be {"id": 1}
and that's what I'm sending from my test case. But somewhere along the way single-quotes are introduced into the mix causing me head ache.
Any thoughts?