urequests - header dict not being passed through correctly?

[eymas]

I'm at a loss regarding the following:

import urequests as requests
import ujson

method = "get"
url = "https://api.example.com"
headers = {
    "authorization": "Bearer" + token,
    "accept": "application/json"
    }
result = requests.request(method, url, headers)
result_obj = ujson.loads(result.json())

Looking at the request function within urequests.py, I believe I do have to pass a dictionary onto headers. However; the following is returned when I do so: TypeError: object with buffer protocol required

If I pass on the headers within the function call. I get a Bad Request error and no other way to read the response object to determine the exact cause.

[SpotlightKid]

I think all header keys and values need to be byte strings, i.e. bytes not str.

[eymas]

Having added a quick encoder the error still repeats, unfortunately:
header = ujson.dumps(headers).encode('utf-8')

[SpotlightKid]

The headers must be a dict, not a JSON string. However, I was incorerct, the dict keys and values can be strings. Your error was trying to JSON-decode an already decode response. response.json() returns the decoded JSON response body, i.e. usually a dict or a list. You don't need to decode this manually.

Example:

import urequests as requests

url = "https://httpbin.org/get"
token = "Abracadabra"
headers = {
    "authorization": "Bearer" + token,
    "accept": "application/json"
}
result = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(result.text)
print(result.json())

Output:

{
  "args": {}, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "application/json", 
    "Authorization": "BearerAbracadabra", 
    "Connection": "close", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org"
  }, 
  "origin": "87.78.173.172", 
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}

{'url': 'https://httpbin.org/get', 'headers': {'Host': 'httpbin.org', 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'BearerAbracadabra', 'Connection': 'close'}, 'args': {}, 'origin': '87.78.173.172'}

Note that I use the requests.get function. If you use requests.request, the HTTP method needs to be in uppercase, e.g. GETnot get.

[eymas]

Decoding the decoded response was indeed it. I must've thought result.json() would have returned a JSON object that needed to be turned into a dict; which was already done by the .json() function.
As for the method declaration, I agree that it's better to use the get/post function lest your own formatting betrays yourself.

Thanks for the help!