Error with persist_as

@andy-esch When attempting to persist an augmented table using cc.data(‘denver_stations’, carfree, persist_as=‘persist_test’) received this error:

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JSONDecodeError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-122-51c758ead48b> in <module>()
      7 
      8 df = cc.data('denver_stations', carfree)
----> 9 cc.data('denver_stations', carfree, persist_as='persist_test')

/srv/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/cartoframes/context.py in data(self, table_name, metadata, persist_as, how)
   1432                        '\'', '\'\''))
   1433         return self.query(query,
-> 1434                           table_name=persist_as)
   1435 
   1436     # backwards compatibility

/srv/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/cartoframes/context.py in query(self, query, table_name, decode_geom)
    628                                     # collision_strategy='',
    629                                     table_name=table_name),
--> 630                         headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
    631             except CartoException:
    632                 raise CartoException('Table `{0}` already exists. Delete it '

/srv/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/cartoframes/context.py in _auth_send(self, relative_path, http_method, **kwargs)
   1447         if isinstance(res.content, str):
   1448             return json.loads(res.content)
-> 1449         return json.loads(res.content.decode('utf-8'))
   1450 
   1451     def _check_query(self, query, style_cols=None):

/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
    317             parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
    318             parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 319         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
    320     if cls is None:
    321         cls = JSONDecoder

/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py in decode(self, s, _w)
    337 
    338         """
--> 339         obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    340         end = _w(s, end).end()
    341         if end != len(s):

/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py in raw_decode(self, s, idx)
    355             obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
    356         except StopIteration as err:
--> 357             raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
    358         return obj, end

JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[andy-esch]

Yep, looks like I’m not putting the data into the body. Good catch!

[juanignaciosl]

Sorry, but I don’t know a lot about Python or CARTO Python SDK. You’re using POST but the error is related to URI length. It looks like you’re sending the parameters in the URL instead of using the body. Could you check that?