Django: reconstruct structured parameters sent via $.post

Question

I\'m sending an Ajax request (with jQuery) with structured post data:

$.post(
    myUrl,
    {
         items: [{code: \'a\', description: \'aaa\'},
                     


        

Answer 1

I made special library for Django/Python to handle structured data sent through requests. You can find it on GitHub here.

Answer 2

I'd suggest you post your object as JSON. In Django, you then can recreate the structure by parsing the JSON into python objects.

Post JSON with jQuery

$.post(
    myUrl,
    JSON.stringify({
         items: [{code: 'a', description: 'aaa'},
                {code: 'b', description: 'bbb'}]
    })
)

Parsing JSON in Django view

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.utils import simplejson

def my_view(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        json_data = simplejson.loads(request.raw_post_data)
        # json_data contains your objects
        print json_data['items']

    return HttpResponse("Got data")

Answer 3

You could try:

request.POST.getlist('items')