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# Send Data via Body of HTTP Request
We are using Postman to create the HTTP Request with Body data
{% hint style="info" %}
For additional info on how Postman works [click here](/programming/postman.md)
{% endhint %}
* Go to the Body of the POST request
* Go to RAW under the Body section and usually you want to select JSON
{% hint style="info" %}
Note: You can use other types as well depending on needs. Such as XML, JS, Text
{% endhint %}
{% hint style="info" %}
JSON works very similar to a python dictionary data structure
{% endhint %}
How it would look:
```json
{
"title": "top gun",
"content": "check out my top gun"
}
```
#### Now that we have our HTTP packet set up, we can move on to the FastAPI code
* You will have to import the Body parameter from `fastapi.params`
```python
from fastapi.params import Body
```
* Once this is imported you are able to set up the function so that it converts the JSON sent via HTTP request to a python dictionary and stores it into the `payload` variable
```python
def create_posts(payload: dict = Body(...)):
```
* Then you can return the variable
```python
def create_posts(payload: dict = Body(...)):
return payload
```
Full Code:
```python
from fastapi.params import Body
@app.post("/createpost")
def create_posts(payload: dict = Body(...)):
return payload
```
#### Alternatively you can print this to the screen:
```python
@app.post("/createpost")
def create_posts(payload: dict = Body(...)):
print(payload)
return {"message": "successfully created post"}
```
Once you run this via uvicorn and send the packet via postman you should get the dictionary printed in the terminal:
* Note on line 8 that the dictionary got printed
```bash
INFO: Shutting down
INFO: Waiting for application shutdown.
INFO: Application shutdown complete.
INFO: Finished server process [29399]
INFO: Started server process [29594]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
INFO: Application startup complete.
{'title': 'top gun', 'content': 'check out my top gun'}
INFO: 127.0.0.1:37532 -"POST /createpost HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
```
#### Even better you could return the results via an f string referencing the dictionary key
```python
@app.post("/createpost")
def create_posts(payload: dict = Body(...)):
print(payload)
return {"new_post": f"title: {payload['title']} content: {payload['content']}"}
```
* Note that the `payload` dictionary can be referenced normally by key
Postman Results:
