load() — flask Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the load() function in __init__.py from the flask codebase.

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Source Code

src/flask/json/__init__.py lines 108–135

def load(fp: t.IO[t.AnyStr], **kwargs: t.Any) -> t.Any:
    """Deserialize data as JSON read from a file.

    If :data:`~flask.current_app` is available, it will use its
    :meth:`app.json.load() <flask.json.provider.JSONProvider.load>`
    method, otherwise it will use :func:`json.load`.

    :param fp: A file opened for reading text or UTF-8 bytes.
    :param kwargs: Arguments passed to the ``load`` implementation.

    .. versionchanged:: 2.3
        The ``app`` parameter was removed.

    .. versionchanged:: 2.2
        Calls ``current_app.json.load``, allowing an app to override
        the behavior.

    .. versionchanged:: 2.2
        The ``app`` parameter will be removed in Flask 2.3.

    .. versionchanged:: 2.0
        ``encoding`` will be removed in Flask 2.1. The file must be text
        mode, or binary mode with UTF-8 bytes.
    """
    if current_app:
        return current_app.json.load(fp, **kwargs)

    return _json.load(fp, **kwargs)