How to get data from Ajax POST in my django views function?

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``` $(document).ready(function(){ $('.addFolder input').keydown(function(e) { if (e.keyCode == 13) { name = $(this).val(); $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "/folder/", data: name, success: function(result) { $('.folders ul li:first-child').after('

'+name+' 0

'); $('.addFolder input').val(''); } }); } }); ``` How to get data from this Ajax post in my django views function? templates: ```

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``` views: ``` def folder(request): user = request.user if request.method == "POST" and request.is_ajax(): name = request.POST['name'] f = Folder.objects.create(name=name, user=user) status = "Good" return HttpResponse(status) else: status= "Bad" return HttpResponse(status) ``` Why still I have: [30/Nov/2013 14:47:52] "POST /folder/ HTTP/1.1" 403 2294 in logs?

Accepted Answer

You can always access it in your `request.POST` variable. Docs: link

Another thing you should fix in js code is `data` parameter. jQuery docs state the following: `Object must be Key/Value pairs` (link)

on updated question You receive 403 because you're not sending `csrf` token. If you have `'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware'` enabled in your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, then you'd need to put `{% csrf_token %}` into your form's template, and then send it via js along with your data. Like this: `data: {'name': name, 'csrfmiddlewaretoken': $('input[name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"]').val()}`

How to get data from Ajax POST in my django views function?

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