Ajax-ing JavaScript variable to Django view getting: AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'data'

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I am trying to send my JavaScript this.click variable from my .js file to my Django view class Click using Ajax and getting the following error message...

AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'data'

Here is my view...

class Clicks(View):
    def post(self, request):
        clicks = request.data.get('clicks')
        return JsonResponse({'status': True})

Here is my .js files ajax...

var image_movement = function(){  //Handles movement of tug of war image
this.total = 18
this.clicks = 0
this.move = function(num){  //Adds or subtracts one from total depending on which player calls it
    if(this.total == 0){
        $('#onewon').show();
        $.ajax({
            headers: {
                'Content-Type':'application/json',
                'X-CSRFToken': getCookie('csrftoken')
            },
            url:  'click',
            type: "POST",
            data: {clicks: this.clicks},
            success:function(response){
                alert("success: " + response);
            },
            error:function (xhr, textStatus, thrownError){
                alert("failure: " + xhr.statusText);
            }
        }).done(function (response) {
            alert("end");
        });

Here is my .js files function for obtaining cookie to give to ajax header...

function getCookie(name) {
        var cookieValue = null;
        if (document.cookie && document.cookie != '') {
            var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
            for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
                var cookie = jQuery.trim(cookies[i]);
                if (cookie.substring(0, name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
                    cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return cookieValue;
    }
var csrftoken = getCookie('csrftoken');
}

Here is my url...

    url(r'^click$', Clicks.as_view()),

Things that I have tried...

1) Using clicks = request.DATA.get('clicks') instead of clicks = request.data.get('clicks') (get the same error as above)

2) Switching to own specific class based view to avoid any interference.

Hi ea87, Could it be that you access the data like this: request.POST['clicks'] — adamteale
– adamteale, Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 23:11
I'm not sure if this is the correct terminology but is you Ajax call making it to your Clicks view? Can you print something to test if it gets called? — adamteale
– adamteale, Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 23:28

Andrei Avram · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-19 23:42:06Z

2

I can't find anything in the Django Request object docs about request.data. Is it possible that you mean request.body?

On the other hand, Django Rest Framework does add a data attribute to the request object, but if that's the case - if your using DRF - you should make sure to import View from DRF and not from django.

answered Dec 19, 2015 at 23:42

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