Trying to run python script using terminal and pass inputs in terminal - python-3.x

Question

I'm trying to pass my input from terminal and run python script, My input is url http://localhost:8080/api/auth and payload is { "request":"success","input":[ { "type":" ", "content":[ { "type":" ", "meta":{ "sample_type":" " , deatail":" "} ] } ], "output":[ { "type":" ","content":[ { "type":"", "meta":{ "sample_type":"", }, "deatils":" " } ] } ] }
My Code is here:
def get_response():
auth_access_Token = get_token()
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='A tutorial of argparse!')
parser.add_argument("--url", action="store_true", required=True )
parser.add_argument("--payload", action="store_true", required=True )
a = parser.parse_args()
url = a.url
Header = {'Auth': 'Bearer ' + str(auth_access_Token)}
payload = a.payload
resp = requests.post(url, headers=Header, json=payload)
print(json.loads(resp.content))
get_response()
When I pass my inputs using
python test.py --url http://localhost:8080/api/auth --payload `{ "request":"success","input":[ { "type":" ", "content":[ { "type":" ", "meta":{ "sample_type":" " , deatail":" "} ] } ], "output":[ { "type":" ","content":[ { "type":"", "meta":{ "sample_type":"", }, "deatils":" " } ] } ] }`
It's giving me error: unrecognized arguments
where am I wrong?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

So, there are a couple of problems with your script.
action value should be store and not store_true.
store_true is for TRUE and FALSE values.
Secondly in order to handle the spaces in the input arguments they must be enclosed in double quotes. As the payload value contains double quotes they must be replace with single quotes.
Here is the modified code
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='A tutorial of argparse!')
parser.add_argument('--url', action="store", nargs=1, type=str, required=True )
parser.add_argument("--payload", nargs=1, type=str, required=True )
a = parser.parse_args()
print(a)
So when you invoke the script like this:
> python test1.py --url http://localhost:8080/api/auth --payload "{ 'request':'success','input':[ { 'type':' ', 'content':[ { 'type':' ', 'meta':{ 'sample_type':' ' , deatail':' '} ] } ], 'output':[ { 'type':' ','content':[ { 'type':'', 'meta':{ 'sample_type':'', }, 'deatils':' ' } ] } ] }"
EDIT
You have to process the payload data.
Also I found that the the data you are passing is illformed.
"meta":{ "sample_type":" " , deatail":" "}, see quotes are missing before deatail and also some matching braces.
payload = a.payload[0]
payload = re.sub(r"'", "\"", payload)
resp = requests.post(url, headers=Header, json=payload)
print(json.loads(resp.content))