I am sending a POST AJAX request using Angularjs and its $http module to Django server. Here is an example:
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/url/',
data: 'test data'
}).
success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
doSomeStuffWhenSuccess();
});
The problem is what I get in Django. No matter what I send the data is always the key of QueryDict
object and value of that is always an empty list.
<QueryDict: {u'test data': [u'']}>
I don't have a clue why. What am I missing?
I use almost default created Django application with default middlewares only. I created only a view and set an url in url config. Version of Django is 1.3. And I configured angular's $http module to always send a header containg csrf token to satisfy Django.
I resolved this with jQuery param function. I think it's more elegant solution.
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/url/',
data: $.param({test: data})
})
Now it works like I wanted.
I believe django thinks you are sending a urlencoded form, ex. key=value&key2=value2...
if you'd try:
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/url/',
data: 'test=data'
})
You should get
<QueryDict: {u'test': [u'data']}>
You can always obtain the data (raw body content) as follows:
request.body
Hope this is what you are looking for.