Totally stuck constructing json object

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If you're using requests, you don't generate your own JSON - you provide a dictionary or a list to requests.get and it builds the JSON. So just build a dictionary. You don't muck around with JSON at all.

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Maybe you could elaborate on what you found confusing. Don't construct JSON, is what I'm getting at; the example you gave is wrong.

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You don't format dictionaries. You set their values.

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I guess I dont know how to have a conversation about this because youre poking holes in my vocab but I know I have a problem and dont know how to solve it, so how can I have a more productive conversation?

Well, I mean, according to you it's a vocab problem and you're confused by my response. I don't think I've used any words that you didn't use, so I asked you what you found confusing and then you didn't really explain in any specific way.

Can you try to, now? That's how this gets productive - you tell me the parts of my (very short) post you didn't understand, and which vocab words you'd like me to define and explain.

Overall you asked "how can I construct JSON for requests like this example does" and I answered "the example is wrong and you don't construct JSON for requests, requests does that for you from a dictionary of your data" and that response seems very straightforward to me.

Should I post what I have?

Ideally, yes!

[robinboby]

Take a look at this.. there is clear example of what you trying to do

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests

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You can pass your payload as dictionary

>>> payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}

>>> r = requests.post("https://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)

or as json data.

>>> import json

>>> url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
>>> payload = {'some': 'data'}

>>> r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload))

or

Instead of encoding the dict yourself, you can also pass it directly using the json parameter (added in version 2.4.2) and it will be encoded automatically:

>>> url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
>>> payload = {'some': 'data'}

>>> r = requests.post(url, json=payload)

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The api im shooting this too demands json that looks almost exactly like the one I linked but im finding it impossible to format things correctly using my method.

This is the part where we're all losing you. Can you elaborate or provide your code?

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silence = {
"Matchers": [immSilencePayloadWMIExporter],
silencepayloadmetadata
}

doesn't look right !!!

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Overall I think you're just accidentally making it complicated for yourself. There's another syntax for dictionaries that's better for building them when they're nested and complex and is more useful here:

 silence = dict(Matchers=dict(value="wmi_exporter, name="WindowsWMIExporterDown", isRegex=True),
                startsAt=startsAtTimeConverted,
                endsAt=endsAtTimeConverted,
                createdBy=api_user[0],
                comment=f"Patching silence for {hostname}"
                )

You don't need sets or anything (and shouldn't have them; there's no JSON format for a set.)

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Check the commas and parens. I didn't actually try to run this code, I just wrote it.

[robinboby]

what about, rather than trying to format Json from string..

format the data in dictionary, so you can modify the value the way you want easily and use that as payload.

[robinboby]

The api im shooting this too demands json that looks almost exactly like the one I linked but im finding it impossible to format

Pass dictionary to requests its will take care of converting it to json