Django Jquery sortable - how to access POST data

Question

Nearly have this working but...

the javascript calls django like this:

.sortable({
  connectWith: '.object',
  update: function() {
                        var order = $(this).sortable('serialize');
               $.ajax({
                          type: "POST",
                          data: order,
                          url: "/focus_upd/"
                        });

         ....

And in the focus_upd function the data arrives ok

POST:<QueryDict: {u'task[]': [u'29', u'20', u'29', u'28']}>,

But if I refer to request.POST['task[]'] I get 28

Why is this happening and how can I get the whole list?

Answer 1

Use request.POST.getlist('task[]')

By the way, there's no need to use [] in field names in Django. This is a PHP idiom, and just makes life more complicated.