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wtreston
wtreston

Reputation: 1061

Django, using the same view depending on if its a GET or an AJAX POST method

So I am using the same view in Django to do two things, depending on if the request is a GET or a POST method.

The GET method is simply to render the page when the user requests it, and the POST is when I use ajax to send information from the frontend, to the view so that i can process it and save it in the database.

Here is the Javascript/Ajax:

  var url = window.location.pathname;
  $.ajax({
    url: url,
    data: {
        'vals': vals
        },
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function (data) {
        //On sunccess
    }
    });

The window.location.pathname contains the review_id in it and looks like:

/reviews/*ID*/add_questions/

This is my Django View:

def add_questions(request, review_id = None):
#print('yes')
if request.method == 'GET':
    try:
        review = ReviewBlock.objects.get(pk = review_id)
        args = {'review': review}
        return render(request, 'add_questions.html', args)
    except ObjectDoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponseNotFound('<h1>Page not found</h1>')
elif request.method == 'POST':
    print(review_id)

As you can see, I have a print statement to see if the ajax call is working, however, it never prints it in the console.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 423

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 309049

$.ajax defaults to GET requests. To do a POST request, you either need to add type: "POST",

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: url,
  ...

or use the $.post shortcut

$.post({
  url: url,
  ...

If you use the same request method for ajax and non-ajax requests, you may find the request.is_ajax() method useful

Upvotes: 3

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