Python json POST请求状态为200，而预期状态为201

Question

I'm trying to do a POST request to a web server in an attempt to create a new resource. I'm fairly new to both Python and the platform I'm trying to communicate with on the server, so I'm not sure if it's my python skills require a bit more practice or if I'm just not submitting a request correctly to the server. Here's my code:

import requests

apiKey = "[APIKEY]"
serverUrl = "http://192.168.0.5/api/v1.0/payments"

values = """
  {
    "clientId": 1,
    "method": 3,
    "createdDate": "2016-09-12T00:00:00+0000",
    "amount": 10,
    "note": "",
    "invoiceIds": []
  }
"""


headers = {
  'X-Auth-App-Key': apiKey,
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

r = requests.post(serverUrl, data=values, headers=headers)
r

The server responds with a Response 200 (OK) message, but since I'm trying to create a new resource it should respond with a Response 201 (Created) message. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try using https:// ,

change serverUrl = "http://192.168.0.5/api/v1.0/payments"

to

serverUrl = "https://192.168.0.5/api/v1.0/payments"

Answer 2

This probably won't result in a different HTTP status code, but you can send JSON encoded dictionaries directly by using the json parameter to requests.post() . So values can be a dictionary, and requests will set the content type so you don't need to in headers :

values =
  {
    "clientId": 1,
    "method": 3,
    "createdDate": "2016-09-12T00:00:00+0000",
    "amount": 123.45,
    "note": "",
    "invoiceIds": []
  }

headers = {'X-Auth-App-Key': apiKey}

r = requests.post(serverUrl, json=values, headers=headers)

It's just a little cleaner.

Regarding the expected 201 response, is the resource actually created? Do you get a 201 response when using other tools such as curl ?