How to set Request and response “Content-Type” to “application/json;charset=UTF-8”?

Question

In flask restful, based on open API spec, I need to ensure that requests have header Content-Type set to application/json;charset=UTF-8 which means that input request is a JSON and encoded in UTF-8.

I can check for JSON using below code:

if request.is_json:
    do some thing

But, how can I make sure that request and response is UTF-8 encoded and output should also be application/json;charset=UTF-8 ?

Answer 1

You could create a response using jsonify

from flask import Flask, jsonify
...

Then you can change some http properties

response = jsonify({"status": "ok" })
response.status_code = 200
response.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json; charset=utf-8"
return response