I have a model called Item and I'm trying to create Items with Ajax, everything looks to be working ok, but I'm getting and error at the end of the process, in the success function in Ajax. I have been reading a lot of answers to questions like this here in StackOverflow but I couldnt make it work:
This is my model:
PRIORITY_CHOICES = (
(1, 'Low'),
(2, 'Normal'),
(3, 'High'),
)
class Item(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=60)
description = models.TextField(max_length=1000)
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
priority = models.IntegerField(choices=PRIORITY_CHOICES, default=1)
done = models.BooleanField(default=False)
meeting = models.ForeignKey(Meeting)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
This is my view, whichs is working Ok and saving the data into de database:
from .forms import AddItemForm
from .utils import render_to_json_response
class AjaxFormResponseMixin(object):
def form_invalid(self, form):
return render_to_json_response(form.errors, status=400)
def form_valid(self, form):
# save
self.object = form.save()
# initialize an empty context
context = {}
# return the context as json
return render_to_json_response(self.get_context_data(context))
class AjaxItemCreateView(AjaxFormResponseMixin, CreateView):
form_class = AddItemForm
def get_context_data(self, context):
context['success'] = True
context['name'] = self.object.name
context['description'] = self.object.description
return context
as you can see, I'm using a custom shortcut called render_to_json_response in order to parse data in Json
this is the code of the shortcut (Please notice that I'm printing the context, in order to verify the data):
from django.http import JsonResponse
def render_to_json_response(context, **response_kwargs):
print (context)
return JsonResponse(context)
(if you're wondering why I'm using this simple shortcut it's because previously I was trying to return the response with HttpResponse and specifying content_type="application/json", but it also wasn't working)
This is my ajax code:
function AddItem(event){
var csrftoken = getCookie('csrftoken');
var item_name = $('#item-name').val();
var item_desription = $('#item-description').val();
var item_priority = $('#item-priority').val();
var item_meeting_pk = $('#item-meeting-pk').val();
var url = "/item/add/";
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: url,
data: {
'name': item_name,
'description': item_desription,
'priority': item_priority,
'meeting': item_meeting_pk ,
'csrfmiddlewaretoken': csrftoken
},
success: function(data){
alert("success");
alert(data);
},
complete: function(data){
alert("completed");
alert(JSON.stringify(data));
}
});
}
and, finally, this is the form that calls the AddItem() function:
<form>
{% csrf_token %}
<input type="text" placeholder="Nombre del item" id='item-name'/>
<input type="text" placeholder="Descripción del item" id='item-description'/>
<select id="item-priority" name="provider" class="form-control">
<option value="1">Baja</option>
<option value="2">Normal</option>
<option value="3">Alta</option>
</select>
<input type='hidden' id='item-meeting-pk' value='{{ meeting.pk }}'>
<button onclick='AddItem()' class="button-blue" >Agregar</button>
</form>
When I submit the form, everything goes fine, and in my django shell I can see that the post request is returning 200 and the data is printing ok:
{'name': 'asdkkasd', 'description': 'sdksdksjd', 'success': True}
[29/Aug/2015 08:34:22]"POST /item/add/ HTTP/1.1" 200 65
in the ajax function I have javascript alerts in both success and complete, but only the complete's one is executing and this is what I'm getting with the execution of alert(JSON.stringify(data));:
{"readyState": 0, "responseText":"", "status":0, "statusText": "error"}
I hope you can help me, thank you :)
