Django Class Based View Returns Empty String When Post

To demostrate: from django.views.generic.base import View from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator class TestView(

Solution 1:

You need to implement its post method. See Class based views.

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic import View

classTestView(View):

    @method_decorator(csrf_exempt)defdispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # do somethingreturnsuper(TestView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)

    defpost(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
       # do somthingdefget(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
       return HttpResponse('Hello, World!')

See more for dispatchdocs.

The default implementation will inspect the HTTP method and attempt to delegate to a method that matches the HTTP method; a GET will be delegated to get(), a POST to post(), and so on.

So previously you was disturbing the above logic, calling super will allow dispatch to delegate to post method.

Solution 2:

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but it may offer a workaround. What I have used in JSON applications is to send a post to the get method when I want the same results for both. Something like:

defget(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    return HttpResponse('Ha!')

defpost(self. request, *args, **kwargs):
    returnself.get(request, *args, **kwargs)

with dispatch left alone.

Solution 3:

The best approach when using class-based views is not to write your own method handlers from scratch; instead, use one of the generic classes as the base and then modify just the methods which handle what you need. For example, if you have a form which needs to be submitted via POST, you should use the FormView as a base, which handles responses both GET and POST requests.

You don't need to override post() and/or get() methods themselves; instead use form_valid() to define what happens when the form is submitted:

classTestView(FormView):
    form_class = MyForm
    success_url = "/your/return/url/"defform_valid(self, form):
        # do somethingreturn redirect(self.get_success_url())

Solution 4:

Sorry guys, this is a bug in uWSGI and nginx ...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11115108/41948

I am really sorry for wasting your time by misleading you. And still it took me a while to figure which part of my stack went wrong.