Python's JSON Format (with flask) format

Question

Ruby on Rails JSON is able to parse out curl calls in the following format:

name=test . It will interpret this as {"name": "test"} .

Python's JSON seems to take this as a JSON error (which it obviously is). Is there a way however, to take parse payload in the format of name=test ? I'm using Python's JSON with Flask here.

Answer 1

If you are using flask, why not use jsonify

from flask import jsonify

@app.route('/do')
def do_whatever():
    return jsonify(name=test)

This will send a JSON response like this to the browser:

{
    "name": "test",
}

Answer 2

Try

fields = curl_str.split('=')
curl_json = { fields[0]:fields[1] }