Django server side AJAX validation

Answer 1

have a look at the docs

Answer 2

You do just like you did, django views receives a request parameter. The request parameter has a POST "dictionary".

def validate(request):
    print request.POST["validateValue"]
    ...

Answer 3

This is slightly offtopic, but from my experience it's best to do server side AJAX validation in exactly the same way as regular form validation on submit - this gives exactly the same error messages, if any, by using exactly the same validation code - and therefore provides consistent Hijax-compliant user experience.