Calling jQuery.load like so should POST the data:

$(‘#results’).html(‘ ’).load(‘{% url demo_user_search %}’, { ‘q’: q });
By passing the query param ‘q’ as an array (using the optional data parameter), it should automatically POST instead of GET. For more info, check the jQuery.load() docs:http://api.jquery.com/load/

This is really nice, however i have a slight problem. If i try and parse parameters in the second argument to the load it doesnt work. I want to pass my post parameters up and use request.POST.get instead of request.GET.get. 

Any Ideas??

Thanks, Ed

It seems that the site_media is not found. I put the address hardcoded but have no sucess again.
That is some configuration that need to be donne?

http://www.nomadjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ajax_user_list.zip


from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template
from django.contrib.auth.views import login, logout_then_login
from django.conf import settings


from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()


urlpatterns = patterns('',
( r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root ),
( r'^site_media/(?P .*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', { 'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT } ),
( r'^demo/', include( 'demo.urls' ) ),
)

There is possible to update 2 divs with the same load function?

Thanks for sharing your experience using jQuery Taconite and Django together. Really good stuff! I’ll have to steal this for my next project. ;)

I had to do some Django/Ajax interaction on a site I did 2 years ago. We had a separate window called the Video Console and a large list of videos that could be displayed. Each video had a number of components: a URL to the FLV file, descriptive text, URLs to related products, etc. I was concerned about too much knowledge of the page layout being buried either in the back end or in the JS code for the AJAX handling.

Then I found the jQuery plugin called ‘taconite’! (Cue sounds of angels singing from on high.) See http://malsup.com/jquery/taconite/

I created a simple utility class to collect the various changes we wanted to make to the browser page. When you call the response() method it gives you a fully compliant XML/Taconite object wrapped in an HttpResponse object and … everything just works!

Between the taconite jQuery magic on the front, and the simplicity of building/rendering on the back, it’s almost embarrassing how simple taconite makes doing AJAXy stuff.

I put a quick-and-dirty version of it at:
http://techbuddy.us/taconite.py.txt

I just left a comment for your blog post. Thought that it might be the right place to continue the discussion.

http://www.grenadepod.com/2009/11/13/query-data-from-django-site-with-jquery/

Now I’ve got one question. How would you go about passing information from the HTML back to the site? If you look at my example I use class to identify all objects I want to query and the id holds the object specific information. Again, I’m total muppet when it comes to js/ajax stuff, so just wondering what would the best practises be in approaching this?

Cheers!

No, “customers.fields.id” is not set in the template context.

I am using Ajax/JSON to pass “customer” objects from the View to the Template (via jQuery).

Just to make things a bit more clear, finally what I am looking to achieve is to generate entire HTML UI using Ajax (via jQuery). For that I require the “Customer” objects which I am getting thru JSON.

But the problem is, getting the URL for each customer object (for e.g. /cutomer/21). Ofcourse, I can hard code the URL such as ("/customer/"+ "Customer_ID"), but then it would be a very poor design decision & quite cumbersome to maintain. That’s why I require the reverse URL lookup to work at runtime inside an Ajax (jQuery) call.