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wtreston
wtreston

Reputation: 1061

AJAX Post request not sending values to Django View

I am trying to pass some data from the frontend to the backend of my site using AJAX. This is the post request view in my django views:

def post(self, request):
    id_ = request.GET.get('teacherID', None)
    print(id_)
    args = {}   
    return JsonResponse(args)

This is the function I have in javascript. I know the correct value is being passed because the console.log(teacher_id) prints the right value.

function send(teacher_id){
    console.log(teacher_id)
    var url = window.location.pathname;
      $.ajax({
        method: "POST",
        url: url,
        data: {
            'teacherID': teacher_id,
            },
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (data) {
            //location.href = data.url;//<--Redirect on success
        }
        });
}

When the code is run, and the print statement in my view is run, regardless of what the teacher_id is, None is printed.

what is wrong with the code?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1068

Answers (1)

yarwest
yarwest

Reputation: 990

In your Django view the data is being retrieved using GET.get() while the AJAX request is sending it using method: "POST".

POST data can't be retrieved in the same way as GET data so you should either change the way the data is being send (by changing the method in the AJAX call to GET) or read it using the related POST methods.

You can visit this Stack Overflow question if you are doubting which method to use.

Upvotes: 2

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