Python Flask - Request.json Returns None Type Instead Of Json Dictionary

I'm writing a very simple demo webapp, and I can't seem to pass a json object from js to python using ajax. I've tried a number of suggestions from people on so with similar proble

Solution 1:

Because you are not sending JSON, to the flask app (see this and this). Your current code results in a standard urlencoded form post. Which in turn results in an entry being populated in request.form

 request.form.get('word')

Switch to a json post as per the guidelines in the above Q&As to access the data through request.json.

Solution 2:

the data is likely not flowing to json if you are getting None, so you should jsonify the data. It will be coming in in the form of form.

from flask import jsonify

@app.route("/examplemethod", methods=['POST'])defexample_method():
    data = jsonify(request.form).json
    print(data) #will be in the form a json dictreturn data['foo-key'] #can retrieve specific items with their key-pairs