[Django]-Django ORM problems with AJAX

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Whenever you are using Django and Ajax, you should be thinking of a rest framework (like Django Rest Framework). Hand-rolling your own ajax & endpoints is reinventing the wheel, while other very smart people have open sourced their code for you. Using a framework with Ajax lets you break your model manipulation out of the Django request-response cycle and handle things really easily in the browser.

There are 3 steps:

  1. Install DRF and set up some model endpoints
  2. Write the ajax request to hit your endpoint
  3. Manipulate the DOM based on the response.

Example template:

template.html

{% block extra_js %}

<script type="text/javascript">
    // Forgive the pseudocode, I have not run this.
    // Uses jquery because everything does.

    // For each item in an array, add it to a selected table in a new row
    var do_dom_manipulation = function(data){
        $.each(data, function(d){
            $('table.mytable').append('<tr>'+d+'<tr>')
        })
    }

    // Hit the rest endpoint to get data from the browser
    $.ajax('api/models',
        {
            'name': 'foo'
        }
    ).done(function(data) {
        alert( "success" );
        do_dom_manipulation(data)
    })
    .fail(function() {
        alert( "error" );
    })
    .always(function() {
        alert( "complete" );
    });
</script> 

{% endblock extra_js %}
👤bwarren2

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Try using 

import django.utils.simplejson as json

json.dumps(prod_serv)

OR you can use serializer

from django.core import serializers
# serialize queryset
serialized_queryset = serializers.serialize('json', prod_serv)
👤Amar Kamthe

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