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BWinter
BWinter

Reputation: 43

Call python function with Django

I've recently started learning how to use Django and I was wondering whether or not you could create a button in HTML that can directly call a python function without changing the URL. I was told this was possible with JS but I wanted to know if you could do that in Python.

Thanks for your time reading this!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 294

Answers (2)

djangomachine
djangomachine

Reputation: 709

A potential option if you're not ready to dig deep into javascript is to look into HTMX.

You can just create a django view with whatever python functionality you want, and use HTMX to perform a get or post call to it. Here I'm just returning a chunk of html that will be inserted into the dataLocation div, but you could literally call anything that's possible with python from your view and return useful html.

index.html

<button hx-get="/alert_message/" hx-target="#dataLocation" hx-swap="innerHTML">
    Click Me
</button>

<div id="dataLocation"></div>

views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse


def alert_message(request):
    return HttpResponse(
            (
                "<div class='alert alert-warning'>"
                "    <strong>Warning!</strong> Some important message."
                "</div>"
            ),
            status=200,
            content_type="text/html",
        )

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('alert_message/', views.alert_message, name='alert_message'),
]

Upvotes: 1

8bjs110
8bjs110

Reputation: 109

Depending on your application you may want to look into Django forms. Otherwise JS (ajax) is the way to go. More details could always help.

Upvotes: 0

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