There are plenty of similar questions here but I can't solve that problem I have. Situation is simple in theory - I send json to Django view, I get a json response. I did it with python, with Django, with REST framework. But with Ajax I can't do it, there's something with URLconf and ajax's relative url kind of stuff and I can't figure out what's wrong and how to make it work. I mean with some URL confs I can send a request with my chrome plugin and I have a response I need, but ajax is getting 404 with that confs. If I change it Django starts to return my html page instead of json response. What am I missing here? My ajax request:
$.ajax({
url: 'ajax/apply_city/',
type: 'GET',
data: {
'city': obj.textContent
},
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
var str = '';
data.districts.forEach(function (district) {
str += '<a class="dropdown-item" href="#" onclick="applyDistrict(this)">' + district + '</a>';
});
window.alert(str);
document.getElementById("district_dropdown").innerHTML = str;
},
});
urls that works with requests from everything but not ajax:
re_path('^index/$', views.index, name='index'),
re_path('^index/ajax/apply_city/', views.apply_city, name='apply_city'),
Logs show Not Found: /index/... when ajax makes request and GET /index/... 404. I've seen that for ajax I shouldn't close url with $ sign. If I do ^index/ I get HTML page as a response (but with HTTP200). Maybe that's some Django issue or I don't understand how to do it properly. If anyone knows how to fix it please help.
