request.POST parsing without form

Hi,

I am using django strictly as a backend for data processing. As such I
am not using any forms or templates, just database tables as models.
The page is js driven and POSTing data is causing me some issues.

A user action triggers a POST that looks like:

action "update"
data { "field1": 8,"id": 2 }
(copied from firebug)

When I try to parse the POST data I get errors on every type of method
I have tried. What I eventually would like to do is something like:

if request.POST.__getitem__('xaction') == 'update':
mydata = request.POST.__getitem__('data')
model_to_update = modelname.get(id=mydata['id']
for k,v in mydata:
setattr(model_to_update, k, v)
model_to_update.save()

However every time I try to parse the "data" POST values I get errors.
I wonder if I am missing some assumptions by not importing/using
forms, or if there is a standard method to iterate through the POST
data that I am missing. I have literally tried every \*get\* dict
method from the docs and all throw errors (.list() throws numeric
indicies errors, iteritems() throws not iterable, etc.)

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Taso

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