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| # Answer to a question on Flask mailing list | |
| # http://librelist.com/browser//flask/2012/6/30/using-ajax-with-flask/ | |
| # NOTE: *REALLY* don't do the thing with putting the HTML in a global | |
| # variable like I have, I just wanted to keep everything in one | |
| # file for the sake of completeness of answer. | |
| # It's generally a very bad way to do things :) | |
| # | |
| from flask import (Flask, request, jsonify) | |
| app = Flask(__name__) | |
| html_page = """<!DOCTYPE HTML> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Rough AJAX Test</title> | |
| <script> | |
| function loadXMLDoc() | |
| { | |
| var req = new XMLHttpRequest() | |
| req.onreadystatechange = function() | |
| { | |
| if (req.readyState == 4) | |
| { | |
| if (req.status != 200) | |
| { | |
| //error handling code here | |
| } | |
| else | |
| { | |
| var response = JSON.parse(req.responseText) | |
| document.getElementById('myDiv').innerHTML = response.username | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| req.open('POST', '/ajax') | |
| req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") | |
| var un = document.getElementById('scname').value | |
| var sec = document.getElementById('secret').value | |
| var postVars = 'username='+un+'&secret='+sec | |
| req.send(postVars) | |
| return false | |
| } | |
| </script> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1>Flask AJAX Test</h1> | |
| <form action="" method="POST"> | |
| <input type="text" name="scname" id="scname"> | |
| <input type="hidden" name="secret" id="secret" value="shhh"> | |
| <input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="return loadXMLDoc()"> | |
| </form> | |
| <div id="myDiv"></div> | |
| </body> | |
| </html>""" | |
| @app.route('/') | |
| def index(): | |
| return html_page | |
| @app.route('/ajax', methods = ['POST']) | |
| def ajax_request(): | |
| username = request.form['username'] | |
| return jsonify(username=username) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| app.run(debug = True) |
I agree, thanks for this very useful Gist.
Yeah thanks a bunch. After trying to read the data with request.get[ ] for ages, I finally found the answer was as straight forward as request.form[ ]. Thanks!
Hi. Greetings from Colombia.
Your code have worked for me.
Many forums say that XMLHttpRequests are depreciated, I wanna know if you know how to update the code to current JQuery (Ajax), I've looked for a lot of time and nothing worked.
Thanks a lot.
what if the route take varaibles like int:num how we will write the url in open function ?!
Thanks for writing this. I am porting a 23 year project from PHP to Python/Flask. It is a real help.
What's the intention behind returning the JSON string in the ajax_request method? return jsonify(username=username) Not sure what this is doing! Thanks, this is a great tut
What's the intention behind returning the JSON string in the ajax_request method?
return jsonify(username=username)Not sure what this is doing! Thanks, this is a great tut
It's just there to show how you would return some data from the ajax request. If I remember correctly, it needs to be given a header and stuff as part of the request and the jsonify() method handles all of that and makes it accessible in the javascript response object, rather than as plain text that you then have to parse.
Thank you so much for this awesome Gist! This helped me to finally understand how to send data to my Flask server!