Passing data from the cherrypy server-side to javascript client-side

Question

Big picture question. I've got a cherrypy server running with all the shopping cart methods for my e-commerce site written in python. I'm working with jquery on the front end.

POSTing to my python methods is easy in javascript, but not passing data the other way. I can send it back with JSON, but not always conveniently. It seems like the easiest way is to just create javascript variables with cheetah like var width = $width but that seems messy.

What am I doing fundamentally wrong here? It doesn't seem like I'm structuring my server-client interaction correctly at all. What's the best way to have my server methods called, and what's the best way to embed information from the server into a page so that it can be worked on with javascript?

Answer 1

As far as I know what you're talking about here can be done in two ways that I know.

1. AJAX requests can return whatever you want.
2. Multiple posting to pages and logic that changes the pages(views)

If you're talking at a lower level, you can get some information in the http request about your newly connected client.

I'm not really sure what all you're asking here. Could you give a more specific example?