Re: Trying to make a POST call to a Django view

On 02.05.2016 19:01, carloratm wrote:
> hello everyone,
> I am a frontend developer studying Django, so please forgive my
> noobish question...
> I am trying to make a simple ajax call working.
>
> I have a form in a template. I would like to use that form to save an
> object into the database (asynchronously).
> On form submit event:
> * I prevent regular action
> * I serialize form data in a JSON
> * I pass that object to a view using a jquery POST
> * The view receive the JSON data
> * The view use the request.POST data to save an object into the database.
> * The view returns a message.
>
> Is that flow straightforward, or am I completely missing the goal?
>
> Now some code and the error I got.
>
> The relevant part of template:
>
> http://dpaste.com/3Z7TRPM
>
>
> And this is the error I got:
>
> http://dpaste.com/3FYMGYG
>
> I noticed that in the view the request.POST is *empty*!
> That is wrong, I suppose.
>

No that isn't. If jquery sets content-type, to application/json Django
doesn't put that data in .POST, but it's in .body

Django only puts in .POST form-data (either urlencoded or multipart)

> I am surely missing something.
> Any help is really appreciated.
>

If you want to send JSON data with ajax, using something like django-nap
or django-rest-framework is a great help.

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Jani Tiainen

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