Trouble GETting a viewconf I've POSTed

[mccalluc]

On the 0.0.7 Docker image: (or from source: I just replicated it)

$ curl --form 'fileupload={"foo":"bar"}' http://localhost:8888/api/v1/viewconfs/
{"uid": "WsQUwinvSe2LE09eRi0vxA"}

$ curl http://localhost:8888/api/v1/viewconfs/?d=WsQUwinvSe2LE09eRi0vxA
<h1>Server Error (500)</h1>

• Should it require username and password?
• Could the ID be set on the post? Would make it a little bit easier to script, rather than parsing the JSON? But it's reasonable not to offer that, too.
• Why doesn't the GET work?

POST causes no error in the log, but on the GET:

[13/Feb/2017 21:08:17] ERROR [django.request:124] Internal Server Error: /api/v1/viewconfs/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 39, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 187, in _get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 185, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 58, in wrapped_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 68, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 477, in dispatch
    response = self.handle_exception(exc)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 437, in handle_exception
    self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 474, in dispatch
    response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework/decorators.py", line 52, in handler
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "./tilesets/views.py", line 254, in viewconfs
    return JsonResponse(json.loads(obj.viewconf))
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

Maybe it's not actually writing to the database?

[mccalluc]

It looks like the whole POST is being stored in the database, and it's having trouble parsing it as json:

--------------------------5de6d8535ce81884
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileupload"

{"foo":"bar"}
--------------------------5de6d8535ce81884--

(This is tested, but not at the HTTP level, and I guess it hasn't been used up till now.)

[mccalluc]

Nils suggested this:

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"foo":"bar"}' http://localhost:8001/api/v1/viewconfs/
...
$ curl http://localhost:8001/api/v1/viewconfs/?d=UIv5l2H2RBiIRAWT5xlVmA
{"foo": "bar"}

So I'm not blocked, but validation at the time of the POST might have saved some trouble?