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Joel
Joel

Reputation: 6107

Parsing JSON from jquery call with Django

I have a javascript object that looks like this:

var myObject = { "Danny": {"height": 1.70, "weight" : 70 }, "David" : {"height": 1.90, "weight" : 80" } ... }

I want to send it as a JSON to a django view and parse it in it. On the client side, using jQuery, I added this:

      $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "/ajax/someview",
          data: JSON.stringify(myObject),
          contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
          dataType: "json"
      });

However, when I debug the view and look at request.POST, the data looks like this:

POST:<QueryDict: {u'{"Danny": {"height": 1.70, "weight" : 70 }, "David" : {"height": 1.90, "weight" : 80" }}' : [u'']}>

How can I convert this to a python object which i can work it (using simplejson.load)?

Thanks, Joel

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1555

Answers (2)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

You can access the raw POST data with - not surprisingly - request.raw_post_data. That will give you a string you can convert with simplejson.loads().

Upvotes: 4

DrTyrsa
DrTyrsa

Reputation: 31951

$.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: "/ajax/someview",
      data: {'mydata': JSON.stringify(myObject)},
      contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
      dataType: "json"
});

Then get it with request.POST.get('mydata')

Upvotes: 1

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