sanic/docs/request_data.md

# Request Data

## Properties

The following request variables are accessible as properties:

`request.files` (dictionary of File objects) - List of files that have a name, body, and type  
`request.json` (any) - JSON body  
`request.args` (dict) - Query String variables.  Use getlist to get multiple of the same name  
`request.form` (dict) - Posted form variables.  Use getlist to get multiple of the same name  
`request.body` (bytes) - Posted raw body.  To get the raw data, regardless of content type  

See request.py for more information

## Examples

```python
from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import json, text

@app.route("/json")
def post_json(request):
    return json({ "received": True, "message": request.json })

@app.route("/form")
def post_json(request):
    return json({ "received": True, "form_data": request.form, "test": request.form.get('test') })

@app.route("/files")
def post_json(request):
	test_file = request.files.get('test')

	file_parameters = {
		'body': test_file.body,
		'name': test_file.name,
		'type': test_file.type,
	}

    return json({ "received": True, "file_names": request.files.keys(), "test_file_parameters": file_parameters })

@app.route("/query_string")
def query_string(request):
    return json({ "parsed": True, "args": request.args, "url": request.url, "query_string": request.query_string })


@app.route("/users", methods=["POST",])
def create_user(request):
    return text("You are trying to create a user with the following POST: %s" % request.body)
```