Reading multidimensional arrays from a POST request in Django

Question

I have a jquery client that is sending a POST request with a multidimensional array, something like this:

friends[0][id]    12345678 
friends[0][nam         


        

Answer 1

Does this help? http://dfcode.com/blog/2011/1/multi-dimensional-form-arrays-and-django/

If you want POST data, the only way to get it is to specify the exact ‘name’ you are looking for:

    person[1].name = request.POST['person[1][name]']
    person[1].age = request.POST['person[1][age]']
    person[2].name = request.POST['person[2][name]']
    person[2].age = request.POST['person[2][age]']

Here is a quick on-the-fly workaround in Python when you have the need to extract form values without explicitly typing the full name as a string:

    person_get = lambda *keys: request.POST[
        'person' + ''.join(['[%s]' % key for key in keys])]

Now when you need information, throw one of these suckers in and you’ll have much wider flexibility. Quick example:

    person[1].name = person_get('1', 'name')
    person[1].age = person_get('1', 'age')
    person[2].name = person_get('2', 'name')
    person[2].age = person_get('2', 'age')