Source code for scrapy.http.request.json_request

"""
This module implements the JsonRequest class which is a more convenient class
(than Request) to generate JSON Requests.

See documentation in docs/topics/request-response.rst
"""

import copy
import json
import warnings
from typing import Any, Optional, Tuple

from scrapy.http.request import Request


[docs]class JsonRequest(Request): attributes: Tuple[str, ...] = Request.attributes + ("dumps_kwargs",) def __init__( self, *args: Any, dumps_kwargs: Optional[dict] = None, **kwargs: Any ) -> None: dumps_kwargs = copy.deepcopy(dumps_kwargs) if dumps_kwargs is not None else {} dumps_kwargs.setdefault("sort_keys", True) self._dumps_kwargs = dumps_kwargs body_passed = kwargs.get("body", None) is not None data = kwargs.pop("data", None) data_passed = data is not None if body_passed and data_passed: warnings.warn("Both body and data passed. data will be ignored") elif not body_passed and data_passed: kwargs["body"] = self._dumps(data) if "method" not in kwargs: kwargs["method"] = "POST" super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.headers.setdefault("Content-Type", "application/json") self.headers.setdefault( "Accept", "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01" ) @property def dumps_kwargs(self) -> dict: return self._dumps_kwargs def replace(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Request: body_passed = kwargs.get("body", None) is not None data = kwargs.pop("data", None) data_passed = data is not None if body_passed and data_passed: warnings.warn("Both body and data passed. data will be ignored") elif not body_passed and data_passed: kwargs["body"] = self._dumps(data) return super().replace(*args, **kwargs) def _dumps(self, data: dict) -> str: """Convert to JSON""" return json.dumps(data, **self._dumps_kwargs)