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Jatinder
Jatinder

Reputation: 51

Django - is_ajax() not returning true

I know there are a lot of questions already asked on this but I am not able to get around with it. Please have a look:

from a profile view when "update" button is pressed I want the user to be displayed with an editable form with values picked from database. So as of now there is no POST data.

template:

<form id="shw-form" action="/update_user_profile/{{r_user.id}}" method="get" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<button type="submit" id="upd-btn"  class="btn btn-lg btn-warning" onclick="update_profile_page();">UPDATE</button>
</form>

jquery:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function update_profile_page() {


            var form = $("#shw-form");
            $("#upd-btn").attr('disable', 'true');
            $.ajax({
                url: form.action,
                type: 'get',
                success: function(response){
                    $("#upd-main").load(response); 
                }
                });

            return false;

    }
   </script>

urls.py

url(r'^update_user_profile/(?P<user_id>\d+)$', 'myapp.views.update_user_profile', name='update_user_profile')

but when I click on the button the else part of is_ajax() is executed.

Please have a look if you can find anything that I am doing wrong or missing. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1444

Answers (3)

ecstaticpeon
ecstaticpeon

Reputation: 578

Don't use the onclick attribute of the button, it may not catch everything. Use jQuery's submit() event handler (http://api.jquery.com/submit/) instead.If you don't see any request in the console, then Daniel is very likely right: the form is submitted the usual way.

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599876

You're not disabling the default action of the button, so the form is getting submitted by the browser.

Since you've explicitly put the JS function in the HTML onclick, you can just do this:

<button ... onclick="update_profile_page();return false;"

Upvotes: 0

Alex Shkop
Alex Shkop

Reputation: 2012

is_ajax() checks X-REQUESTED-WITH header. Usually jQuery sets it properly. You can try to explicitly set this header in $.ajax:

$.ajax({
   url: form.action,
   type: 'get',
   success: function(response){
      $("#upd-main").load(response); 
   },
   headers: {
     'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest'
   }
});

If this does not work, it means that your server or proxy strips this header.

Upvotes: 2

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