Re: view for page that modifies itself

2009-01-30 Thread adrian
Still curious about the answer, but I've realized I can accomplish what I want by using a URL pattern to pass the data from the URL into the view that way. On Jan 30, 4:15 pm, adrian wrote: > My question is about how to read form items from the POST request > before the form is validated. > I tr

Re: view for page that modifies itself

2009-01-30 Thread adrian
Clues: the POST querydict is empty, so is GET and the HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH header is 'XMLHttpRequest' even though I submitted the form with form.submit() in javascript, which should generate an ordinary http request. I don't know if the presence of this header is affecting how django handles

view for page that modifies itself

2009-01-30 Thread adrian
My question is about how to read form items from the POST request before the form is validated. I try to read request.POST['myKey'] and Python says MultiValueDictKeyError: "Key 'myKey' not found in even though Firebug shows the POST request does contain that key. Here's why I want to do this.