A JSON/XML payload, for example. If you use plain Django (on DRF and other extensions), then request.body is the only way to access said payload.
Best, Gergely Gergely Polonkai [image: https://]about.me/gergely.polonkai <https://about.me/gergely.polonkai?promo=email_sig&utm_source=email_sig&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=external_links> 2016-04-21 14:17 GMT+02:00 Vijay Khemlani <vkhem...@gmail.com>: > What could be in the body that's not in the supplied Django fields? > > I have implemented RESTful APIs as you say (no idea why that matters as > they are just HTTP requests) and never had the need to read the actual > body.. > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Gergely Polonkai <gerg...@polonkai.eu> > wrote: > >> Vijay: They are not the same thing. request.POST, .GET and .FILES are >> exactly that, POST and GET data and the optional uploaded files. However, >> in e.g. a RESTful environment it is possible to have something else in the >> request body. >> >> Mihai, what else do you do with the request before trying to read its >> body? >> >> Best, >> Gergely >> They aree >> >> [image: --] >> >> Gergely Polonkai >> [image: https://]about.me/gergely.polonkai >> >> <https://about.me/gergely.polonkai?promo=email_sig&utm_source=email_sig&utm_medium=external_link&utm_campaign=chrome_ext> >> >> >> >> >> Gergely Polonkai >> [image: https://]about.me/gergely.polonkai >> >> <https://about.me/gergely.polonkai?promo=email_sig&utm_source=email_sig&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=external_links> >> >> 2016-04-20 22:44 GMT+02:00 Vijay Khemlani <vkhem...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Why would you want to access request.body directly? 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