Passing arguments to post requests

[glyg]

Hi, I started exploring labthings as a generic instrument interface tool with a toy project controlling a USB camera, see here: https://github.com/centuri-engineering/olf_control - I find it very promising.

There is something I can't get to work though (not sure if this is a bug or me not doing things correctly): I don't understand how to pass the arguments to the post method of an Action with a POST request.

With curl, this as no effect (the default of 20 is used):

curl -X POST localhost:7485/actions/average?averages=10

And in Python with requests this as no effect either:

response = requests.post("http://localhost:7485/actions/average", data={"averages": 5})

The post method is defined here and the corresponding USBCamera method is defined there

The app is started with python app.py in the code linked above.

Any hint appreciated!

Guillaume

[glyg]

My error was to pass data = instead of json = to requests.post, it works nicely with

response = requests.post("http://localhost:7485/actions/average", json={"averages": 5})