Question

I was able to hook ajax with django, but I’m running into the following problem.
In my ajax function, I have this:

function submitForm() {
var contactForm = $(this);

if ( !$('#senderName').val() || !$('#senderEmail').val() || !$('#message').val() ) {

$('#incompleteMessage').fadeIn().delay(messageDelay).fadeOut();
contactForm.fadeOut().delay(messageDelay).fadeIn();

} else {

$('#sendingMessage').fadeIn();
contactForm.fadeOut();

$.ajax( {
url: contactForm.attr( 'action' ) + "?ajax=true",
type: contactForm.attr( 'method' ),
data: contactForm.serialize(),
success: submitFinished
} );
}

return false;
}

And the view now looks like this:

def postMessageForm(request):
if request.POST:
print "POST"

if request.GET:
print "GET"

How do I tell the view to send the success variable back so the code continues?
In php, it would be something like this:
….
if ( isset($_GET[“ajax”]) ) {
echo $success ? “success” : “error”;

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

hmmm is it

if 'ajax' in request.GET:
    return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({'success':'success','other_stuff':}))

else:
    return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({'success':'error','other_stuff':}))

But u can check whether request is ajax by using request.is_ajax()