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Reputation: 14144

Send JSON object via POST from JavaScript to Python

There is a client-side JavaScript and server-side Python, powered by Django. There is a data object: foo_data = {"foo":1, "bar":2}.

Now, I would like to send a post-request using dojo/request/xhr, and send foo_data along with another variable:

xhr.post(document.location.href, {
    data: {
        'is_foo': true,
        'data': foo_data
    },
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
}).then(function(text){
    console.log('The server returned: ', text);
});

And then read sent data in Django's views.py file:

def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    json.loads(request.body)

BUT, it doesn't work:

Any ideas how to solve this?

Goal: send JSON object from JS --> Python and read it on server-side.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1298

Answers (1)

GibboK
GibboK

Reputation: 73918

dojo.xhr has been deprecated, please consider using dojo/request more info here:

https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dojo/request/xhr.html#dojo-request-xhr

For a live example of post to a server, you can look source code for this page: https://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/tutorials/1.8/ajax/demo/dojo-request-xhr-post.php

Here some a simple example of usage:

        require(dojo/request"],
            function(request){
                    // post the data to the server
                    request.post("your/server/script", {
                        // send your data here
                        data: { yourData: 1},
                        // wait 2 seconds for a response
                        timeout: 2000

                    }).then(function(response){
                        // do smt here when operation is successfully executed
                    });

            }
        );

Regarding your code sample in your question, you have't posted your server side code. But you could try to pass your data to the server using JSON.stringify().

Upvotes: 2

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