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problem.py

from django.views.generic import View
from django.http import QueryDict

import json


class Webhook(View):
  
  def post(self, request):
    """
    Explaining the problem if sendgrid sends the `text` content
    in a different charset then 'utf-8'.
    See sendgrid documentation here:
    https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Webhooks/inbound_email.html#-Character-Sets-and-Header-Decoding
    """
    charsets_info = request.POST.get('charsets')
    charsets = json.loads(charsets_info)
    charset = charsets.get('text')
    
    if charset.lower() not in ['utf-8', 'utf8']:
      # I know, this don't work, but how would something
      # like this be possible in Django?
      new_post = QueryDict(request.body, encoding=charset)
      text = new_post.get('text')
    else:
      text = request.POST.get('text')
      
    # go on and work with text...