Django not dispatching the request to correct view function - ajax

I am new to Django. And I am building an ecommerce website.
I have these 2 urls.
path('', views.cart, name='cart'),
path('delete/<int:order_id>', views.cart, name='remove')
These are 2 functions in my views
def cart(request):
def remove(request, order_id):
When ever I try to make request to the remove view it gives me this error.
TypeError: cart() got an unexpected keyword argument 'order_id'
http://localhost:8000/cart/delete/96
What I understand from this is that it is calling the cart method instead of remove.
The cart method is working fine.
I am calling this remove method with Ajax.
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: `delete/${order_id}`,
success: function(){
console.log("helloo");
}});
I think i am missing some thing very basic here.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks.

You have a typo. The second URL calls the view cart instead of remove.
Change the urls.py as follow:
path('', views.cart, name='cart'),
path('delete/<int:order_id>', views.remove, name='remove')

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Prestashop: How to submit data from adminpanel template to Admin Controller?

I'm trying to make a custom page in the adminpanel of Prestashop where the shopowner can fill in his upcoming events that will appear in a column in the header.tpl page. The templates and controller are working so far, with a structure based on an answer here at Stack Overflow:
How to create a new page in prestashop admin panel?
Now I have made in the content.tpl (with the added custom JavaScript and CSS files) the form with the input fields. The next step is to send it to the controller to save it in the database. But I'm stuck this part. I can't find how I can nicely submit the form to the controller. First I tried it with an Ajax function but I couldn't find the right way. Also without Ajax no success.
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
headers: { "cache-control": "no-cache" },
url: baseUri + '?rand=' + new Date().getTime(),
async: true,
cache: false,
dataType : "json",
data:{
processEvents: true,
ajax: 'true',
controller: 'AdminEvents',
token: static_token
},
//success: function(jsonData){
//}
});
This is an example of an Ajax function that I tried. My questions:
How does other tpl or js files receive the baseUri, where is that
variable set?
What is the function of the ?rand date and time in that line? A kind
of security token?
What is the url of the controller? Also the url when I use
I guess the processEvents : true and Ajax : true is for security
reasons and to check if the form is submitted by Ajax or not?
Why is it necessary to send the controller name?
Where does the token come from?
Questions about the controller:
Which (Prestashop default functions) can or do need to use? For
example:
if (Tools::isSubmit('name')){
etc.
if (Tools::getValue('create_account')){
etc.
Can I use that functions anywhere or maybe only in an Init function?
A lot of questions, feel free to answer only a part of it, I just need a good push in the right direction, searching and reading in the online documentation and on the internet doesn't brought me the solution and brainwashed me a little.
EDIT:
I made a little progress by myself:
Where does the token come from?
What is the url of the controller? Also the url when I use
With the tools getAdminTokenLite and the controller name I generated the controller url:
$token = '?controller=AdminEvents&token='.Tools::getAdminTokenLite('AdminEvents');
The url to post to is the token plus the domain, admin directory and index.php.
With the tool getValue I get the POST data like in PHP with $_POST["name"].
Tools::getValue('event_name')
So its working but I guess it can be better with other Presta default tools.
I know that it's very late to answer you, but for sure it will help other mates with same problem.
Here is an example about how to implement ajax calls in Prestashop 1.6 on Admin panel using ANY Controller from BackOffice (if you want also, you can use ajax.php controller, but I'm using for this AdminImportController() )
tpl part:
$('#mybtn').click(function(e) {
var data = $('#datalist').val();
// Ajax call with secure token
$.post( "{$current|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}&token= {$token|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}",
{ ajax: true, action: "MyFunction", mydata: data } );
  });
And in admin controller side:
public function ajaxProcessMyFunction()
{
// Get param
$mydata = (int)Tools::getValue('mydata');
$answer = 0;
if( $mydata > 0 ) {
$this->importProfList = Db::getInstance()->executeS(
"SELECT * FROM .... LIMIT 1"
);
...
$answer = $someOperationResult;
}
// Response
die(Tools::jsonEncode(array(
'answer' => htmlspecialchars($answer)
)));
}
Tested and working like a charm.
Regards

Jquery mobile changePage after Ajax call

I have a probleme with ah changePage.
I want to switch the Page after an Ajax call.
If the form get submit, this function will be executed, but after the ajax call the page does not switch.
If I wanna set a Breakpoint on this call, it do not stop.
What can I do, that I can switch the page after the ajax call.
$("#serialNumber").submit(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "mobilemain.do",
data: "serialNumberInput=" + $("#serialNumberInput").val(),
success: function(msg)
{
$.mobile.changePage("#machine_manuals", "slide");
}
});
});
Edit:
Ok!
I found some hint to my Problem.
The SAP-Server call is from the form-submit and not from my ajax-call.
He never goes in the method above.
On my Server, I made that:
l_view = create_view( view_name = 'main.htm').
call_view( l_view ).
But I does not wanna call the main.htm .
I wanna call the second page in the jquery mobile project. (main.htm#machine_manuals)
How does that work?
Other than the page you are changing to, all options for $.mobile.changePage are passed as a key-value pair in an object.
Your changePage should look like this:
$.mobile.changePage("#machine_manuals", {transition: "slide"});
The documentation for the method, and the options available can be found here:
http://api.jquerymobile.com/jQuery.mobile.changePage/

Django API Requests

I'm trying to access another service's API, using my model's fields as the keywords in the API request. The URL would be like like so:
http://api.example.com/json/?first_name=FNAME&last_name=LNAME&key={key}
Here's my code from views.py:
class ExamplePersonView(ListView):
context_object_name = "example_person"
template_name = "templates/example_person.html"
def get_queryset(self):
lname = get_object_or_404(ExamplePeople, lname__iexact=self.args[0])
return ExamplePeople.objects.filter(lname=lname)
From what I understand, I'll need to use AJAX to communicate between my page template and my views.py to send the request and then present the information on the page.
I've found several Django apps that make it easy to turn your models into a public API, but none that help you access API's from another service. Does anyone know of an app like that?
If not, does anyone have a good understanding of using AJAX with Django to make the request and present it in the template?
There's several ways to communicate with a "foreign" API. There's no necessity for ajax. Ajax is just for making background calls in a template, triggering whatever event you have in mind.
But let's say you want to communicate with the facebook GraphAPI to retrieve a profile
http://graph.facebook.com/bill.clinton
The standard result is serialized as JSON, which implements easily into AJAX or any JavaScript library, hence the name JavaScript Object Notation.
So an example with AJAX might be:
function callFacebook() {
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: ({}),
dataType: 'json',
url: "http://graph.facebook.com/bill.clinton",
success: function(data){
alert("Hi I am former "+data.name);
}
});
}
callFacebook();
Include this in your javascript file or within your template between script tags and you should get a nice alert message:
Hi I am former President Bill Clinton
Now you could turn this alert into something more meaningful, and put it within a h1 tag (not sure why this is meaningful)
$("body").html("<h1>"+data.name+"</h1>");
But sometimes you would want to retrieve data and do something with it server side in your application.
So create a django urlpattern and view, e.g.:
from urllib2 import urlopen
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.utils import simplejson
def call_bill(request):
url = "http://graph.facebook.com/bill.clinton"
json = urlopen(url).read()
# do whatever you want
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(json), mimetype="application/json")
# add this to your url patterns
url("^call_bill_clinton/$", call_bill)
Now visit your url
As a logic result, it's also perfectly possible to trigger async events by some user action. Eg the URL parameter in the previously mentioned ajax example, could also be a django url like "/call_bill_clinton/".
<!-- add a button to call the function -->
<button onclick="callFacebook();">Call Bill</button>
function callFacebook() {
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: ({}),
dataType: 'json',
url: "/call_bill_clinton/",
success: function(data){
alert("Hi I am former "+data.name+" and I came from Django");
}
});
)
// remove the auto call
Furthermore ajax calls let you do the same trickery as http requests, you can use a variety of request methods combined with cool javascript events, like a beforeSend event
beforeSend: function() {
$('#loading').show();
},
Where the #loading could be something like:
<div id="loading" style="display:none;">
<img src="{% static "images/loading.gif" %}" />
</div>

How do I render a view after POSTing data via AJAX?

I've built an app that works, and uses forms to submit data. Once submitted, the view then redirects back to display the change. Cool. Django 101. Now, instead of using forms, I'm using Ajax to submit the data via a POST call. This successfully saves the data to the database.
Now, the difficult (or maybe not, just hard to find) part is whether or not it's possible to tell Django to add the new item that has been submitted (via Ajax) to the current page, without a page refresh. At the moment, my app saves the data, and the item shows up on the page after a refresh, but this obviously isn't the required result.
If possible, I'd like to use exactly the same view and templates I'm using at the moment - essentially I'd like to know if there's a way to replace a normal HTTP request (which causes page refresh) with an Ajax call, and get the same result (using jQuery). I've hacked away at this for most of today, so any help would be appreciated, before I pull all of my hair out.
I had a very similar issue and this is how I got it working...
in views.py
from django.utils import simplejson
...
ctx = {some data to be returned to the page}
if ajax == True:
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(ctx), mimetype='json')
then in the javascript
jQuery.ajax({
target: '#id_to_be_updated',
type: "POST",
url: "/",
dataType: 'json',
contentType: "text/javascript; charset=\"utf-8\"",
data: {
'foo':foo,
'bar':bar,
},
success: function(data){
$("#id_to_be_updated").append(data.foo);
}
});
Here's how I did it:
The page that has the form includes the form like so
contact.html
{% include "contact_form.html" %}
This way it's reusable.
Next I setup my view code (this view code assumes the contact form needs to be save to the db, hence the CreateView):
class ContactView(CreateView):
http_method_names = ['post']
template_name = "contact_form.html"
form_class = ContactForm
success_url = "contact_form_succes.html"
There are a few things to note here,
This view only accepts pots methods, because the form will be received through the contact.html page. For this view I've setup another template which is what we included in contact.html, the bare form.
contact_form.html
<form method="POST" action="/contact">{% crsf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
</form>
Now add the javascript to the contact.html page:
$("body").on("submit", 'form', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$("#contact").load($(this).attr("action"),
$(this).serializeArray(),
function(responseText, responseStatus) {
// response callback
});
});
This POSTS the form to the ContactView and replaces whatever is in between #contact, which is our form. You could not use jquery's .load function to achieve some what more fancy replacement of the html.
This code is based on an existing working project, but slightly modified to make explaining what happens easier.

codeigniter get URL after ajax

I am trying to get the URL i see on my browser after i do an ajax request but the problem is that it changes the URL with the Ajax URL.
ex.
i am on domain.com/user/username
and the ajax URL that i call is in domain.com/posts/submit
when i echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] on the posts controller in submit function it will display the second URL and not the first... how can i assure and get the first inside the ajax function that its 100% valid and not changed by the user to prevent any bad action?
Thanks
There is HTTP_REFERER but I don't know if that works for javascript requests. Another problem of this: It won't work for all browsers.
You could try the following:
1.) As the user visits domain.com/user/username the current URL is saved with a token - let's say 5299sQA332 - into the database and the token is provided through PHP to Javascript
2.) The ajax request will send this token along with the other variables needed to the controller through POST
3.) In your ajax controller you search the database for the given token 5299sQA332 and there you have your first URL and you can be damn sure, that it hasn't been manupulated
:)
If I understand you correctly, you want to make sure the ajax call is coming from the page it is supposed to be on? In that case just pass a token with the call.
In the controller function set a token variable in session;
public function username() {
$this->session->set_userdata('ajax_token', time());
}
Then in the view with the js;
$.ajax({
url: '/user/username',
type: 'post',
data: 'whatever=bob&token='+<?php echo $this->session->userdata('ajax_token'),
success: function( data ) {
},
error: function( data ) {
}
});
Then in you form validation, do a custome callback to check they are the same.
Have you looked at CodeIgniter's Input Class ?
$this->input->get('something', TRUE);
i used javascript for it and it seems to work... hope not to have any problems in the future with it...
ps: i dont get why my other answer was deleted.. thats the answer anyway.

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