Ajax Post in Django framework?

Question

I put together a simple test of an ajax/jquery post within a django framework, but don\'t really understand why the output doesn\'t make it to a template page. Anyone?

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Answer 1

You need to add a handler for the response returned by the view:

$.ajax({
    type:"POST",
    url:"/test_results/",
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(json)
    {
        //specifying a dataType of json makes jQuery pre-eval the response for us
        console.log(json.message);
    }
 });

You'll probably also want to encode the response as JavaScript in your view:

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson

def my_view(request):
    if request.is_ajax():
        return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'message' : 'awesome'},
            ensure_ascii=False), mimetype='application/javascript')

Hope that helps you out!