Django Jquery Form no AJAX request - ajax

Question

After reading other questions on similar subject, I still do not understand what's wrong with this code.
I am testing a code that uses Jquery Form plugin. I added a call in the view to the template, to display it for 1st time so user can select file and upload. But it never sends the AJAX request, hence the code section in view is not executed. Although not shown here, jQuery library and the jQueryForm plugin are indeed being called.
Template:
<form id="uploadForm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
<input id="fileInput" class="input-file" name="upload" type="file">
{{ form.docfile }}
<span class="upload-message"></span>
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>
<script>
var message = '';
var options = {
type: "POST",
url: '/upload/file/',
error: function(response) {
message = '<span class="error">We\'re sorry, but something went wrong. Retry.</span>';
$('.upload-message').html(message);
$('fileInput').val('');
},
success: function(response) {
message = '<span class="' + response.status + '">' + response.result + '</span> ';
message = ( response.status == 'success' ) ? message + response.fileLink : message;
$('.upload-message').html(message);
$('fileInput').val('');
}
};
$('#uploadForm').ajaxSubmit(options);
</script>
View:
def upload(request):
response_data = {}
if request.method == 'POST':
if request.is_ajax:
form = UploaderForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
upload = Upload(
upload=request.FILES['upload']
)
upload.name = request.FILES['upload'].name
upload.save()
response_data['status'] = "success"
response_data['result'] = "Your file has been uploaded:"
response_data['fileLink'] = "/%s" % upload.upload
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(response_data), content_type="application/json")
response_data['status'] = "error"
response_data['result'] = "We're sorry, but kk something went wrong. Please be sure that your file respects the upload conditions."
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(response_data), content_type='application/json')
else:
form = UploaderForm()
return render(request, 'upload.html', {'form': form})
It does call template correctly during first time, it displays buttons, it executes the script again but the form is not valid, so response_data is with error.
What am I missing?
Thanks, Ricardo

Answer 1

You can try using the example from API section instead, just look at the source code:
$('#uploadForm').ajaxForm({
beforeSubmit: function(a,f,o) {
$('.upload-message').html('Submitting...');
},
success: function(data) {
$('.upload-message').html('Done!');
}
});
and the HTML:
<form id="uploadForm" action="/upload/file/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000">
File: <input type="file" name="file">
{{ form.docfile }}
<span class="upload-message"></span>
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>

Answer 2

How it is supposed to be worked if there are no form data send in your script.
var options = {
type: "POST",
url: '/upload/file/',
data: new FormData(document.getElementById('uploadForm')),
processData: false,
contentType: false,
error: function(response) {
message = '<span class="error">We\'re sorry, but something went wrong. Retry.</span>';
$('.upload-message').html(message);
$('fileInput').val('');
},
success: function(response) {
message = '<span class="' + response.status + '">' + response.result + '</span> ';
message = ( response.status == 'success' ) ? message + response.fileLink : message;
$('.upload-message').html(message);
$('fileInput').val('');
}
};

Answer 3

You have at least one problem with you view - this:
if not request.GET:
return render(request, 'upload.html')
will prevent further execution when request.GET is empty which is the case when doing a POST request.