Method json

src/requests/models.py:1087–1120

r"""Decodes the JSON response body (if any) as a Python object. This may return a dictionary, list, etc. depending on what is in the response. :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``json.loads`` takes. :raises requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: If the response body

(self, **kwargs: Any)

        return content

    def json(self, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
        r"""Decodes the JSON response body (if any) as a Python object.

        This may return a dictionary, list, etc. depending on what is in the response.

        :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``json.loads`` takes.
        :raises requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError: If the response body does not
            contain valid json.
        """

        if not self.encoding and self.content and len(self.content) > 3:
            # No encoding set. JSON RFC 4627 section 3 states we should expect
            # UTF-8, -16 or -32. Detect which one to use; If the detection or
            # decoding fails, fall back to `self.text` (using charset_normalizer to make
            # a best guess).
            encoding = guess_json_utf(self.content)
            if encoding is not None:
                try:
                    return complexjson.loads(self.content.decode(encoding), **kwargs)
                except UnicodeDecodeError:
                    # Wrong UTF codec detected; usually because it's not UTF-8
                    # but some other 8-bit codec.  This is an RFC violation,
                    # and the server didn't bother to tell us what codec *was*
                    # used.
                    pass
                except JSONDecodeError as e:
                    raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)

        try:
            return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
        except JSONDecodeError as e:
            # Catch JSON-related errors and raise as requests.JSONDecodeError
            # This aliases json.JSONDecodeError and simplejson.JSONDecodeError
            raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)

    @property
    def links(self) -> dict[str, dict[str, str]]: