Question

How do you when making an ajax request to a view return the template data to the jquery call.

As an example, i am making an ajax call this way.

<script>
  function getProfile(username) {
     $.getJSON("/profiles/"+username, { username:{{ username }}}, function(json){
                            alert("Was successful?: " + json['success']);
                        });
                    }
   function addClickHandlers() {
           $(".person-name").click( function()
                getProfile(result.user.username) });
                    }
                    $(document).ready(addClickHandlers);
  </script>

My django view

def profiles_view(request, username):
#    if username:
#        selected_user = User.objects.get(username = username)
    results = {'success':False}
    if request.method == u'GET':
        GET = request.GET
        if GET.has_key(u'username'):
            results = {'success':True}
    json = simplejson.dumps(results)

    return HttpResponse(json, mimetype='application/json')

Can i pass my template view profiles_view.html to the HttpResponse? i am not sure where my template comes in?

Answer 1

If you need both HTML view and JSON view, you may need two responses. First is from TemplateResponse, second one is from HttpResponse. Two requests seem inefficient, but the first request is once for all, afterwards you only need JSON response by use of AJAX request.

You can return a template by:

 return TemplateResponse(request, "profiles_view.html", results)