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Graphite events not working

Asked by Franklin Angulo

I'm trying to post events to Graphite using curl but I get the following error message. I'd appreciate some help.

curl -X POST http://localhost/events/ -d '{"what": "Event through curl", "tags": "curl"}'

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<p>Graphite encountered an unexpected error while handling your request.</p>
<p>Please contact your site administrator if the problem persists.</p>
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py&quot;, line 114, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File &quot;/opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/events/views.py&quot;, line 32, in view_events
    return post_event(request)
  File &quot;/opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/events/views.py&quot;, line 44, in post_event
    event = json.loads(request.raw_post_data)
AttributeError: &#39;WSGIRequest&#39; object has no attribute &#39;raw_post_data&#39;

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Thanks!

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Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said : 		#1

Looks like you're running a newer version of Django that breaks compatibility with HttpRequest#raw_post_data. You'll either need to downgrade to 1.4 or patch events/views.py to use HttpRequest#body instead.

e.g. Line 44 should read:

event = json.loads(request.body)

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Jason Dixon (jason-dixongroup) said : 		#2

Oh, and here's the Django change announcement:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4/#httprequest-raw-post-data-renamed-to-httprequest-body

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Franklin Angulo (feangulo) said : 		#3

Worked like a charm - thanks for the insight!