Python的请求和流星/ MongoDB的collectionapi更新不工作

Question

I'm trying to use Python Requests to send data to a Meteor application. I'm using the meteor-collectionapi to expose my collection.

I can use CURL to update my collection, like so:

curl -H "X-Auth-Token: 3243EEREFADfdsafkjghk432hljsfDS3" -X PUT -d "{\"\$set\":{\"level\":\"32\"}}" http://localhost:3000/collectionapi/containers/WjyuFkRdmq78qyzR7`

I'd like to perform the same command in Python using Requests. Here's the code I've put together:

import requests
import json
url = 'http://localhost:3000/collectionapi/containers/WjyuFkRdmq78qyzR7'
headers = {'X-Auth-Token': '3243EEREFADfdsafkjghk432hljsfDS3'}
payload = {'\$set':{'level':'43'}}
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)

When I run this the $set doesn't get passed properly and the POST doesn't work correctly (it creates a new object in the collection instead of updating the existing object). I've tried escaping it a variety of ways but nothing seems to work properly. If I don't escape the $set I get:

payload = {'$set':{'level':'38'}} 
{"error":"Error: key $set must not start with '$'"}

Answer 1

In your cURL command you're not doing a POST, you're doing a PUT.

Try changing your requests command to

r = requests.put(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)