How to save Json in the django database from Javascript

Question

I will generate a json and save it in a string variable, and I need to save the whole json in my database.

I have a view

class DashboardView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'votes/dashboard.html'

in this template, I have javascript, and in this javascript I'm generating Json and saving it in a js variable, and I want to put the json in the variable into the DB.

As I'm gonna create a object for the jsons, I'll change templateview to CreateView as It's gonna save.

But how is this json going to become available for the view to be saved ?

You need to post the json data to a django view, and then use a JsonField to store de data. — Juan Diego Garcia
– Juan Diego Garcia, Commented Jul 11, 2017 at 14:04
docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/… — Juan Diego Garcia
– Juan Diego Garcia, Commented Jul 11, 2017 at 14:04

Hadi Farhadi · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-11 14:41:32Z

2

brief instruction

using jquery ajax:

$.post( "/your/url/for/store/json/data", { jsonField: jsonData } );

in your view:

def save_json_data(request):
    ...
    data = request.POST.get("jsonField", "")
    model = YourModel(json_field=data)
    model.save()
    ...

answered Jul 11, 2017 at 14:41

Hadi Farhadi

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Goun2 Over a year ago

thanks for the help, Clear up something, this url in $.post, is the url referring to the def save json data ?

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