Thanks. I tried a lot of different options but nothing was working. Finally got it working with this:
req = request.POST['value']#this is how InputEx sends it, with root = value. parsedRequest = simplejson.loads(req) print parsedRequest["Username"] Basically, I got the array of 'value', then turned that into JSON and then read from that. On Nov 10, 11:06 pm, Tamas Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does > > request.POST['value'][0]['LastName'] > > work? > > It looks like your post data has an array (keyed as 'value') of dicts. > > You might also consider using Firebug (or something similar) to inspect the > http requests and responses when you are developing. > > Regards, > > Tamas > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM, robinne <develo...@computer-shoppe.net>wrote: > > > > > I am posting data from a form to a django view. The form is created > > using inputEx (a YUI-like interface). The form gets created much like > > you create a YUI form and you include names for all your fields in > > javascript. It is javascript that creates the form on the page. > > > I am able to load database data from the django view into my form > > fields (sending json string to UI), but when I post I cannot access > > individual posted values, even though I can see that the > > 'request.POST' is getting posted to the django view. The request.POST > > looks something like <QueryDict:{u'value': > > [u'{"FirstName":"Mary","LastName":"Smith"...etc]}> > > > When trying to access a value by using... > > > def MemberInfo(request, member_id): > > if request.method == "POST": > > print request.POST > > try: > > print request.POST['LastName'] #ERROR > > > ... > > error message is: > > "POST /MemberInfo/1 HTTP/1.1" 500 54476 > > > any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=.