send json object through javascript to python web service

Question

I am trying to send a json object from javascript to a python webservice. But the service always treats it as a string. Below are the client and server side codes:

CLIENT SIDE:

$("#button").click(function () {
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "http://localhost:8079/add",
            data: JSON.stringify([{'account_template': {
                    'external_id': 'l10n_harec.a' + $("input[id$=Text2]").val(),
                    'name': $("input[id$=Text1]").val(),
                    'code': $("input[id$=Text2]").val(),
                    'type': $("select[id$=accountType]").val(),
                    'reconcile': $("input[id$=Checkbox1]").val()
                }, 'account_account': {
                    'code': $("input[id$=Text2]").val(),
                    'name': $("input[id$=Text1]").val(),
                    'type': $("select[id$=accountType]").val(),
                    'active': 'True',
                    'reconcile': $("input[id$=Checkbox1]").val()
                }
            }]),
            dataType: "json",
        });
    });

SERVER SIDE:

class add:        
    def POST(self):
        i = web.input()
        print i

I can see the following on server side as a result:

Can anyone tel what is wrong here?

Answer 1

I don't know what module you're using, but i expect it to always be passed as a string. If you expect a dictionary, you can use json.loads to do that:

import json
i = json.loads(web.data())
print type(i)