Re: Returning data from view to ajax call

An HttpResponse includes http headers and will blow up an ajax call.
You want to use a render_to_string method and pass either json or a rendered template (render to string bypasses the headers, render to response will include them)

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 8:14:06 AM UTC-5, Larry....@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Larry Martell <larry....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Larry Martell <larry....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjay...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Larry Martell <larry....@gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> <snip />
>>> >>
>>> >> In the browser the response has this:
>>> >>
>>> >> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>>> >> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:53:47 GMT
>>> >> Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.2
>>> >> Vary: Cookie
>>> >> Content-Type: text/plain
>>> >>
>>> >> No content. But I verified from pdb that the python code is sending
>>> >> something in the content when it does this:
>>> >>
>>> >> return HttpResponse(content=data, content_type="text/plain",
>>> >> status=200)
>>> >>
>>> > try:
>>> >   return HttpResponse(data, content_type="text/plain", status=200)
>>> >
>>> > (no content= ... )
>>>
>>> No difference - still no content.
>>>
>> Can you navigate to the page just in the browser (not making an AJAX
>> request) ? Do you get a response then? What if you substitute data with
>> "some random string" ?
>
> Yes, I get back the data I expect.

I just tried setting an always function and that is called and I can
get my response. So I guess I'll go with that. But I wonder why the
success function is not called.

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