Trying to make a POST call to a Django view

[carloratm]

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.

I am surely missing something.

Any help is really appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

carlo

[ludovic coues]

I would use the browser developer tools to look at what JQuery is
sending to django in the submit event.

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[Carlo Ascani]

2016-05-02 18:11 GMT+02:00 ludovic coues <cou...@gmail.com>:
> I would use the browser developer tools to look at what JQuery is
> sending to django in the submit event.

http://dpaste.com/2MQTNZP

I do not see anything wrong there...

Any ideas?
Thank you

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[Jani Tiainen]

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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