How to use AJAX with Google App Engine (Python)

Question

I am completely novice at AJAX. I am familiar with HTML/CSS, jQuery and beginner at GAE and Python.

In an effort to understand how AJAX works, I would like to know h

Answer 1

Ok Sir here we go... A simple app with one story and infinite votes... ;-)

app.yaml

application: anotherappname
version: 1
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true

default_expiration: "0d 0h 5m"

libraries:
- name: jinja2
  version: latest

- name: webapp2
  version: latest

handlers:
- url: .*
  script: main.app

main.py

import logging
from controllers import server
from config import config
import webapp2


app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
        # Essential handlers
        ('/', server.RootPage),
        ('/vote/', server.VoteHandler)
    ],debug=True, config=config.config)


# Extra Hanlder like 404 500 etc
def handle_404(request, response, exception):
    logging.exception(exception)
    response.write('Oops! Naughty Mr. Jiggles (This is a 404)')
    response.set_status(404)

app.error_handlers[404] = handle_404

models/story.py

from google.appengine.ext import ndb


class Story(ndb.Model):
    title = ndb.StringProperty(required=True)
    vote_count = ndb.IntegerProperty(default = 0)

controllers/server.py

import os
import re
import logging
import config
import json

import webapp2
import jinja2

from google.appengine.ext import ndb
from models.story import Story


class RootPage(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        story = Story.get_or_insert('Some id or so', title='A voting story again...')
        jinja_environment = self.jinja_environment
        template = jinja_environment.get_template("/index.html")
        self.response.out.write(template.render({'story': story}))


    @property
    def jinja_environment(self):
        jinja_environment = jinja2.Environment(
            loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(
                os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
                             '../views'
                ))
        )
        return jinja_environment


class VoteHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        logging.info(self.request.body)
        data = json.loads(self.request.body)
        story = ndb.Key(Story, data['storyKey']).get()
        story.vote_count += 1
        story.put()
        self.response.out.write(json.dumps(({'story': story.to_dict()})))

and finally

views/index.html

    
        
        
        
    
    
        
{{story.title}}
        

            {{story.vote_count}}  | Vote Up Story
        
        
    

Assemble, read it's simple enough and run. If you need a working git example just comment.

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