loads

Reverse of dumps(), raise BadSignature if signature fails.

The serializer is expected to accept a bytestring.

def loads(
    s: string,
    key: string = None,
    salt: string = "django.core.signing",
    serializer: class = JSONSerializer,
    max_age: integer = None,
    fallback_keys: list = None
) - > any

Reverse of dumps(), raise BadSignature if signature fails. The serializer is expected to accept a bytestring.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
s	string	The signed and encoded string to be verified and deserialized
key	string = None	The secret key used to verify the signature; defaults to settings.SECRET_KEY
salt	string = "django.core.signing"	A namespace used to ensure that signatures created for different purposes are not interchangeable
serializer	class = JSONSerializer	The class used to deserialize the unsigned string back into a Python object
max_age	integer = None	The maximum allowed age of the signature in seconds; raises SignatureExpired if exceeded
fallback_keys	list = None	A list of secondary secret keys to attempt verification against if the primary key fails

Returns

Type	Description
any	The original Python object that was previously signed and serialized