Request method for retrieving the unparsed request body

[simonw]

I'm writing a plugin (simonw/datasette-insert#2) that implements an API for inserting JSON data. As such, I'd like to POST a JSON blob rather than using key=value form encoded data.

Right now there's a request.post_vars() method but no request.post_body() one:

datasette/datasette/utils/asgi.py

Lines 93 to 103 in c5f06bc

	async def post_vars(self):
	body = []
	body = b""
	more_body = True
	while more_body:
	message = await self.receive()
	assert message["type"] == "http.request", message
	body += message.get("body", b"")
	more_body = message.get("more_body", False)
	return dict(parse_qsl(body.decode("utf-8"), keep_blank_values=True))

[simonw]

Documentation here: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/internals.html#request-object