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BrAt Maria
BrAt Maria

Reputation: 67

Pass special characters from django to views.py

I am trying to pass a string from an Html page to views.py

The string has some special characters, string:

Clarithromycin 500 MG Extended Release Tablet;http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/RXNORM/;259543;9/4/2010;2;d;1 bid;Prescription;http://smartplatforms.org/terms/codes/MedicationProvenance#;prescription ;1;{tablet} ;7/7/2014;2007-10-03 03:00:00+03;

I have found that the problem is in urls.py in regex expression. The string is not passed after special character '#'

urls.py : 

   (r'^bulkimport/importMedications/(?P<stringP>.+)', importMedications),

I have also tried 

  (r'^bulkimport/importMedications/(?P<stringP>[\w\+%_&\# ].+)', importMedications),

and the passed string is:

Clarithromycin 500 MG Extended Release Tablet;http:/purl.bioontology.org/ontology/RXNORM/;259543;9/4/2010;2;d;1 bid;Prescription;http:/smartplatforms.org/terms/codes/MedicationProvenance

If I remove character '#' all the string is passed.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1382

Answers (2)

Ivan Hreskiv
Ivan Hreskiv

Reputation: 1075

I had the same issue with GET. I could not pass '+' character. I did following:

q_string = dict(x.split('=')
    for x in request.META['QUERY_STRING'].split('&')
)

And then I used q_string instead request.GET.

Upvotes: 5

Daniel Hepper
Daniel Hepper

Reputation: 29967

The hash mark # is a reserved character in URLs, it introduces the fragment identifier.

To use it in a URL, you have to percent escape it as %23. You can use urllib.quote to do that.

However, I would strongly advise you to use POST requests to import your data, if possible.

Upvotes: 0

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