How to POST a django form with AJAX & jQuery

Question

I\'ve checked out tons of tutorials for django AJAX forms, but each one of them tells you one way of doing it, none of them is simple and I\'m a bit confused since I\'ve nev

Answer 1

On the server side, your django code can process the AJAX post the same way it processes other form submissions. For example,

views.py

def save_note(request, space_name):

    """
    Saves the note content and position within the table.
    """
    place = get_object_or_404(Space, url=space_name)
    note_form = NoteForm(request.POST or None)

    if request.method == "POST" and request.is_ajax():        
        print request.POST
        if note_form.is_valid():
            note_form.save()
            msg="AJAX submission saved"
        else:
            msg="AJAX post invalid"
    else:
        msg = "GET petitions are not allowed for this view."

    return HttpResponse(msg)

I've assumed your NoteForm is a ModelForm -- which it should be -- so it has a save method. Note that in addition to adding the save() command, I changed your request.is_ajax to request.is_ajax(), which is what you want (if you use request.is_ajax your code will just check whether the request has a method called is_ajax, which obviously it does).