AJAX Data not Posting to View in Django - javascript

I've implemented a basic checkout wherein a user may select a shipping address from a list of addresses via the 'address' class. It works on the server side, but I would like to use AJAX to avoid having the page refresh with each selection. The code is not posting any data, however. What am I doing wrong?
views.py
def pick_address(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
checkout = Checkout.objects.get(pk=request.POST.get('checkout'))
checkout.shipping_address = ShippingAddress.objects.get(pk=request.POST.get('address'))
checkout.save()
return HttpResponse('success')
pick_address.js
<script>
$('.address').click(function () {
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '{% url 'pick-address' %}',
dataType:'json',
data: {
checkout: {{ checkout.pk }},
address: {{ address.pk }},
csrfmiddlewaretoken: '{{ csrf_token }}'
},
success: function (data) {
if (data['success']) {
alert('success!');
}
}
});
});
</script>

In views.py
def pick_address(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
checkout = Checkout.objects.get(pk=request.POST.get('checkout'))
checkout.shipping_address = ShippingAddress.objects.get(pk=request.POST.get('address'))
checkout.save()
ctx={'success':True}
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(ctx),content_type='application/json')
in pick_address.js
success: function (data) {
if (data.success) {
alert('success!');
}
}

I was using the slim version of jQuery, which does not support AJAX. The code was otherwise (mostly) correct.

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<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".like_button").click(function(){
var pk = $(this).data('pid')
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: {'pk': pk,
'liked': $("span").hasClass('fa fa-thumbs-up') },
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success: function(response) {
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},
error: function(response, error) {
alert(error);
}
});
});
});
</script>
another option is return the id from the server.
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success: function(response) {
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});
});
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if request.method == 'POST':
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The error from the browser.
What am I doing wrong here?
After a very long time of searching for the answer, I eventually got it right. see the code below. I'm trying to figure out how to make the dropdown menu scrollable but code below does exactly what I wanted.
$('#tokenfield').tokenfield({
autocomplete: {
source: function(request, response){
if(request.term.length >= 5){
$.ajax({
url: "/user_account/auto_complete_search/",
type: 'POST',
data: {
'search_text': request.term,
'csrfmiddlewaretoken': $("input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]").val()
},
success: function(data){
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$.each(data, function(i, jsonObj){
dataArr[i] = jsonObj.fields.keyword;
});
response(dataArr);
}
else{
response([]);
}
},
dataType: 'json'
});
}
else{
response([]);
}
},
delay: 300,
},
showAutocompleteOnFocus: true
});
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The HTML is still the same. Hope this helps somebody in the future.

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