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Ajax: How to send FormData inside of json object

To give you a better understanding consider my ajax request:
$.ajax({
url: '{% url "validate-upload-single" %}',
type: "POST",
data: JSON.stringify({
'mainForm': Myform,
'currentForm': 1,
}),
dataType: 'json', // response type
Where:
var Myform = new FormData( $(this)[0] );
The problem is that when i send the request, i get back an empty 'dict' on the server side. Im using Django as my backend
DJANGO VIEW:
print('SORTING THE POST REQUEST')
body = request.body.decode('utf-8')
serialized = loads(body)
print(f'POST: {request.POST}')
print(f'Body: {body}')
print(f'Serialized: {serialized}')
RESULT:
SORTING THE POST REQUEST
POST: <QueryDict: {'{"mainForm":{},"currentForm":1}': ['']}>
Body: {"mainForm":{},"currentForm":1}
Serialized: {'mainForm': {}, 'currentForm': 1}
I've tried $("form").serializeArray() but this only return text data, files seem to be missing

I guess the problem is with contentType header - it should be 'multipart/form-data'. Check this link to make it work with jQuery.ajax

In the .js file you HAVE TO add the fist block of csrf token for properly working.
//Getting csrf token
var csrftoken = jQuery("[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]").val();
function csrfSafeMethod(method) {
// these HTTP methods do not require CSRF protection
return (/^(GET|HEAD|OPTIONS|TRACE)$/.test(method));
}
$.ajaxSetup({
beforeSend: function(xhr, settings) {
if (!csrfSafeMethod(settings.type) && !this.crossDomain) {
xhr.setRequestHeader("X-CSRFToken", csrftoken);
}
}
});
Then you use json in you ajax, getting the template that you want to display by variable here "html_form":
// Submit post on submit
$('#post-form').on('submit', function(event){
event.preventDefault();
console.log("form submitted!") // sanity check
//Send data to server for getting back sorted
$.ajax({
url: '/schedule/sort_group/',
async: true,
type: 'post',
data: { //data sent with the post request
group_field_value: $("#select_group").children("#group-option:selected").val(),
lector_field_value: $("#select_lector").children("#lector-option:selected").attr("name"),
},
dataType: 'json',
success: function (data) {
$("#change_by_select").html(data.html_form);
}
});
});
In the views.py file at the bottom you need to determine the data like that:
data['html_form'] = render_to_string('schedule/select_sort.html', context,
request=request)
return JsonResponse(data)
So I suggest the information that you want to retrieve from the server put into the particular another file, whatever it would be (dictionary or lists or other data structures or html templates).
I hope it would help. Feel free to ask any questions.

Ajax POST error (400 BAD REQUEST)

and thank you in advance for helping me.
I'm trying to make a POST where I pass the TOKEN in the URL and I want to pass another param too so I can save the info in the DB. I have this:
$("#btnAddCompany").click(function(e) {
var token = "123";
var companyValue = document.getElementById("companyValue").value;
var obj ={CompanyId: 4 ,Name: companyValue }
var postData = JSON.stringify(obj);
console.log(postData);
$.ajax({
type: "POST", //REQUEST TYPE
dataType: "json", //RESPONSE TYPE
contentType: "application/json",
data: postData,
url: "http://banametric.ddns.net/BanaMetricWebServices/BanaSov_WS.svc/CompanySave/"+token,
success: function(data) {
toastr.success("Lidl Adicionado!");
},
error: function(err) {
console.log("AJAX error in request: " + JSON.stringify(err, null, 2));
}
}).always(function(jqXHR, textStatus) {
if (textStatus != "success") {
alert("Error: " + jqXHR.statusText);
}
})
});
But I'm getting an 400 error (Bad Request) so I assume that I'm making something wrong, but I don't find out what. The error trace is this:
AJAX error in request: { "readyState": 4, "responseText": "\r\n
The server encountered an error processing the request. The
exception message is 'The incoming message has an unexpected message
format 'Raw'. The expected message formats for the operation are
'Xml', 'Json'. This can be because a WebContentTypeMapper has not been
configured on the binding. See server logs for more
details. The exception stack trace is: \r\n at
System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DemultiplexingDispatchMessageFormatter.DeserializeRequest(Message
message, Object[] parameters)\r\n at

It's error because of
The expected message formats for the operation are 'Xml', 'Json'.
So you can pass contentType in your ajax call
$.ajax({
....,
contentType: "application/json"
})

I am not sure, but it depends on what server wants to read from you.
Server does not want to read raw bytes, it wants xml or json
Try to add headers like
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Accept","application/json");
},
in $.ajax() function

You need to set the content type header in your request to inform the server you're sending the data as JSON.
The error message is telling you that the server does not understand the content you're sending it - you have to give it a hint that the data is in a particular format, especially because, again as mentioned in the error message, it allows you to submit in more than one different format (JSON or XML in this case).
Adding
contentType: "application/json"
to the options in your $.ajax call should resolve the issue.
P.S. We can't see the signature of your controller method but it's possible you may also need to give your parameter a name within the JSON, e.g. something like data: JSON.stringify({ "companyValue": postData }); , but there's not enough info in your question to say for certain what the correct structure should be.

$("body").on("submit", ".example_form", function() {
$.ajax({
url: 'http://example.com/{ROUTE_URL}',
data: new FormData(this),
processData: false,
contentType: false,
/* OR contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"*/
type: 'POST',
dataType: "json",
success: function(data) {
console.log(data);
}
});
});

Instead of this
var postData = JSON.stringify(companyValue);
why don't you try this:
var obj ={token :token ,companyValue:companyValue }
And then make use of the json stringify function
var postData = JSON.stringify(obj);
After that in ajax call only change the url:
url: "http://webservice/CompanySave/"

Trouble Accessing Ajax POST variable on Codeigniter end

I'm using jquery to make ajax calls. Basically I don't know how to access the data I'm sending to the server with a post request. I don't know what the variable is called or... something. I don't know!
Ajax functions:
function ajax_client(url, json) {
return $.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'POST',
data: json,
dataType: 'json'
});
}
function gather_records(data, inp_col, fetch_col, limit) {
var json = JSON.stringify({
"ids" : data,
"inp_col" : inp_col,
"fetch_col" : fetch_col,
"limit" : limit
});
return ajax_client(base_url+'ajax_port/gather_records', json);
}
Codeigniter Function:
public function gather_records()
{
$data = json_decode($this->input->post('ids'));
log_message('debug', $data);//null
return json_encode($data);//null :(
}
I'm having no trouble receiving data back from the server here (and accessing with jQuery), my problem is that I can't get the data I'm sending to codeigniter. I'm developing on MAMP if that makes any difference.
I've tried other variable names like,
$this->input->post('data');
$this->input->post('json');
None seem to work.
Thanks very much for any help I can get!

You don't need to do JSON.stringify({..
just pass an object, and everything will be fine. I mean:
function ajax_client(url, json) {
return $.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'POST',
data: json,
dataType: 'json'
});
}
function gather_records(data, inp_col, fetch_col, limit) {
var json = {
"ids" : data,
"inp_col" : inp_col,
"fetch_col" : fetch_col,
"limit" : limit
};
return ajax_client(base_url+'ajax_port/gather_records', json);
}
One more thing. You don't need to json_decode it in your PHP side. Because default contentType in jQuery is 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
Change line
$data = json_decode($this->input->post('ids'));
to
$data = $this->input->post('ids');
But if you really want to send JSON, you can add contentType
return $.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'POST',
data: json,
contentType: 'application/json',
dataType: 'json'
});
dataType you have set is "The type of data that you're expecting back from the server." (http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/)

Send file by Ajax and FormData fail

I'm trying to send a file using Ajax in Jquery creating a FormData previously. This is my code:
var inputFileImage = document.getElementById('uploadImage');
var file = inputFileImage.files[0];
var data = new FormData();
data.append('archivo',file);
jQuery.ajax({
url: '/services/rpc.php',
type: 'post',
data: {functionName: 'saveProfileImage', data : data},
contentType:false,
processData:false,
})
.done(function(response) {
alert(response);
}.bind(this))
.fail(function(response) {
alert('Sorry, there was an unexpected error, please try again later.\n\nInformation about the error:\n'+response);
});
This ajax always goes to the fail function, and if I change the processData to true returns my another error saying Error: TypeError: 'append' called on an object that does not implement interface FormData.
Thanks for your help!

processData has to be off to send binary data. The FormData element is completely used as binary data, while data:{} needs to be processed. Additional parameters have to be appended to the formData in this case!
var data = new FormData();
data.append('archivo',file);
data.append('functionName','saveProfileImage');
jQuery.ajax({
url: '/services/rpc.php',
type: 'post',
data: data,
contentType:false,
processData:false,
});

ajaxSubmit not posting to full url

what am trying to do is submit a form using ajaxSubmit as follow :
$("#login").ajaxSubmit({
url: "index.php?page=login",
type: 'post',
success: function(responseText){
alert(responseText);
}
});
but instead of posting the data to index.php?page=login it post it to index.php which result in wrong response , how I supposed to fix that?

A normal POST request shouldn't include a query string. If you need pass some data, you have to use the "data" option.
data: { page: 'login' }

Take a look at this post, I think it will help you do what you're looking for. Basically you can't add the query string to the url, but you can add it to the data
Adding query string to Ajax url call

Use serialize: http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/ajax_serialize.asp
$("#login").submit(function() {
var url = "path/to/your/index.php";
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: url,
data: $("#login").serialize(),
success: function(data)
{
alert(data);
}
});
return false;
});