I am trying to send an XML file with a rest api POST. the api takes the xml and creates a new entitiy.
I am trying to open the file and then sending it through requests.
filename = 'test.xml'
response = requests.post(api_url, data=json.dumps(open(filename).readlines()))
But getting the 503 (API not able to get the right input). My intention is to send this XML as it is to api.
If I don't do json.dumps, I get ValueError: too many values to unpack
Your API takes XML, not JSON. When you say, data = json.dumps(...), you are passing JSON to your API. This is the reason for your first error message -- 503 (API not able to get the right input).
requests.post() takes ether a dictionary, a string, or a file-like object as its data= parameter. When you do data = foo.readlines(), you are passing in a list (which is neither a string nor a dictionary. This is the reason for your second error message -- "ValueError: too many values to unpack".
Without knowing your API, it is hard to guess what is correct. Having said that, try this:
filename = 'test.xml'
response = requests.post(api_url, data=open(filename).read())
Or, nearly equivalently, this:
filename = 'test.xml'
response = requests.post(api_url, data=open(filename))
I think the problem is, you are trying to convert the xml file into json data (using json.dumps()) directly and post it. I guess the API accepts JSON. Then first try to convert the xml file to a python dictionary / whatever data structure suits it. Then convert it into json.
