nameError: name 'request is not defined

Question

I'm trying to build an absolute url with reverse but I get the above error.

Code:

def get_endpoint(payload):
  url = request.build_absolute_uri(reverse("app-start-conversation"))
  data = json.dumps(payload)
  response = requests.post(url, data, headers=head)

Urls.py:

path(
"api/v2/app/startconversations",
views.StartConversation.as_view(),
name="app-start-conversation,
)

I get the error

nameError: name 'request is not defined

How do I import request?

The reason I need the full url is because with reverse alone, when I run the app locally I get the following error and I do not want to hardcode 120.0.0.1:8000/ to the url.

requests.exceptions.MissingSchema: Invalid URL '/api/v2/app/startconversations': No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http:///api/v2/app/startconversations?

Answer 1

build_absolute_uri should be called by an HttpRequest instance. Should be something like:

from django.http import HttpRequest

def get_endpoint(payload):
  request = HttpRequest()
  url = request.build_absolute_uri(reverse("app-start-conversation"))
  data = json.dumps(payload)
  response = requests.post(url, data, headers=head)