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

Most of examples of using AJAX POST with Django forms, including the official example:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing/#ajax-example

are fine when ModelForm.clean() did not produce any errors (form_valid). However, they do not perform hard part: translating ModelForm errors via AJAX response to Javascript / DOM client-side.

My pluggable application uses AJAX response routing with client-side viewmodels to automatically display class-based view AJAX post ModelForm validation errors similar to how they would be displayed in traditional HTTP POST:

https://django-jinja-knockout.readthedocs.org/en/latest/forms.html#ajax-forms-processing https://django-jinja-knockout.readthedocs.org/en/latest/viewmodels.html

Both Jinja2 and Django Template Engine are supported.