[Django]-Tastypie deserialize results in {"error": ""}

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Your JSON is not valid. Please check it here. The 400 (bad request) status should give you clue about that. It should be: {"username": "user", "password": "password"}. Here you have some solutions how to escape " char in CURL command. Tastypie unfortunately raises exception without message here but we can easily fix that for future to save time for other people which will use your API.

from tastypie.exceptions import BadRequest
from tastypie.serializers import Serializer
class VerboseSerializer(Serializer):
    """
    Gives message when loading JSON fails.
    """
    # Tastypie>=0.9.6,<=0.11.0
    def from_json(self, content):
        """
        Override method of `Serializer.from_json`. Adds exception message when loading JSON fails.
        """
        try:
            return json.loads(content)
        except ValueError as e:
            raise BadRequest(u"Incorrect JSON format: Reason: \"{}\" (See www.json.org for more info.)".format(e.message))

class MyResource(BaseModelResource):
    class Meta:
        serializer = VerboseSerializer(formats=['json'])
👤Bartosz Dabrowski

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