Can i use it as a REST api in Python?

[pras135]

Your repository is working for me as a web app. I am able to host it my local machine. But I was unable to use it as a REST api.
I am using the following code for the same.

url = 'http://localhost:8080'
data = {"q":'subject has headache with fever',
       "format":'html'}
headers = {'Content-Type': 'text'}
response = requests.post(url, data = data, headers = heasders)
response.raise_for_status()
response.json()

And it gives the following error:

JSONDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
7 response = requests.post(url, data = data)
8 response.raise_for_status()
----> 9 response.json()

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py in json(self, **kwargs)
895 # used.
896 pass
--> 897 return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
898
899 @Property

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json_init_.py in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
346 parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
347 parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 348 return _default_decoder.decode(s)
349 if cls is None:
350 cls = JSONDecoder

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py in decode(self, s, _w)
335
336 """
--> 337 obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
338 end = _w(s, end).end()
339 if end != len(s):

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\json\decoder.py in raw_decode(self, s, idx)
353 obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
354 except StopIteration as err:
--> 355 raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
356 return obj, end

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

Is it that the way that I am calling is incoorect? In that case, what would be right format?

[gandhirajan]

This url is just hosted as a webapp not REST api. Check out this link for REST support - https://github.com/GoTeamEpsilon/ctakes-rest-service