How to make an ajax request to a view - ajax

Question

I am trying to figure out how I can make an ajax request (with jquery) from my template in order to execute a view on a button click. I don't want to redirect to another page. I just need to execute the code in the view.
This is my on button click event:
$(document.body).on("click", "#download_xls",function(e) {
selected_country = ($("#button-countries").val())
selected_subareas = $('#_all_values').val();
id = "?country=" + selected_country + "&" + "regions=" + selected_subareas
whole_url = "{% url 'test_download' %}" + id
$("#download_xls").attr("href", whole_url)
});
As I pass the values in my URL, I don't even need to pass some parameters through the ajax request. I just need to execute the code in the view.
The view is something like this:
def test_download(request):
print(request.GET.get('country'))
print(request.GET.get('regions'))
fileContent = "Your name is %s"
res = HttpResponse(fileContent)
res['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=yourname.txt'
return res
EDITED
I have added the ajax GET request in my template as:
whole_url = "{% url 'test_download' %}"+id
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: whole_url,
success: function(data) {
alert('sd')
},
error: function(data) {
alert('error')
},
});
I get an error cause there is no corresponding template for this view. I think I need to add something in the urls.py file.
I read here that I need to modify urls.py as:
url(r'^link-to-fun1$', views.fun1),
But its not clear to me what should be the link-to-fun1.
I tried:
url(r'^create$', 'test_download', name='test_downlad'),
But gives an error: No Reverse Match.

Answer 1

You could use TemplateView add to your url and use JQuery to do something, like this:
views.py
class ajax_view(TemplateView):
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
id_value = request.GET['id']
value = Model.objects.filter(id=id)
data = serializers.serialize('json', value, fields=('fieldone'))
return HttpResponse(data, content_type='application/json')
urls.py
url(r'^ajax/$', ajax_view.as_view()),
JQuery
$.ajax({
data: { 'id': id },
url: '/ajax/',
type: 'get',
success: function (data) {
// Do something with the data
}
})
That's in general how you can use Ajax with Django, the important is the use of TemplateView