Hello Django devs! I'm a long time Django user and nowadays work with sites where Django is mostly or only an API for the front end. I'm assuming this is not an exotic use case in 2022.
One pain point I continue to come across over and over again is that Django by default only speaks text/html even if the request has application/json accept headers. This often results in situatios where the unassuming JS app burps a HUGE html response as a string to the user when something goes wrong. And yes, it's obviously not Djangos fault if the frontend developer is sloppy but I believe there's lots of things we could improve here. Some spesific things we could improve: - At least for 400, 500, and CSRF errors, send JSON (or empty response) back instead of HTML if the request is xhr or has JSON headers - Make it easy to override the JSON like we can do with HTML - Add good documentation to explain how this works and how it can be customized I'm interested in hearing comments about this, and opinions from the core devs if this would be something that could be built into Django. I haven't been active here for a looong time but this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine and I would be more than happy to implement this also. And to be clear, I understand we already have middleware APIs and various settings to handle this but my point is that I think handling this in Django core (even as an optional setting or middleware) would be most useful and right way to do this for the community. Sorry for the long post. Cheers, - VS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/68ced6ec-342f-42f6-ba0b-1a51360fa119n%40googlegroups.com.
