How to receive jQuery.get() in django view

Question

I have a very simple test with jQuery and a django view:

HTML - Includes jQuery.js
JavaScript - $(document).ready( $.get("/index/" ); )

Django urls.py:

(r'^index/', index_view ),

Django views.py:

def index_view(request): if request.GET: return HttpResponse( "RECEIVED GET" )

Debugging in browser, the javascript gets called but the view never displays "RECEIVED GET".

Answer 1

First, you want to anonymous function here, like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $.get("/index/"); 
});

Then, this only gets the response, it doesn't do anything with it, if you want to do something with the content, do it in the callback, like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $.get("/index/", function(response) {
    alert(response);
  }); 
});