Send data as JSON

Author: laurynas

detectlanguage/client.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def get(self, path, payload = {}):
 		return self.handle_response(r)
 
 	def post(self, path, payload):
-		r = requests.post(self.url(path), data=self.data(payload), headers = self.headers())
+		r = requests.post(self.url(path), json=self.data(payload), headers = self.headers())
 		return self.handle_response(r)
 
 	def handle_response(self, r):
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def handle_response(self, r):
 			raise DetectLanguageError(json['error']['message'])
 
 		r.raise_for_status()
-		
+
 		return json
 
 	def url(self, path):

setup.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     url = 'https://github.com/detectlanguage/detectlanguage-python',
     download_url = 'https://github.com/detectlanguage/detectlanguage-python',
     keywords = ['language', 'identification', 'detection', 'api', 'client'],
-    install_requires= ['requests>=1.2.0'],
+    install_requires= ['requests>=2.4.2'],
     classifiers = [],
     license = 'MIT',
 )