Beginning to climb the ajax learning curve, I'm trying to make a simple ajax call back to my CherryPy application and echo the data sent back to the browser.
My ajax call is working and I can return, for instance, the request method back to the browser.
I cannot, however, find the data sent by browser in the request object inside my CherryPy handler. Here is my CherryPy handler, cribbed from this question:
class Contact:
def index(self):
cl = cherrypy.request.headers['Content-Length']
rawbody = cherrypy.request.body.read(int(cl))
body = None
#body = simplejson.loads(rawbody)
if body is None:
return cherrypy.request.method + ' (no body found)'
else:
return cherrypy.request.method + ' ' + body
index.exposed = True
and here's my Javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
function SendContactEntry() {
$.ajax( {type: "POST",
url: "/contact/",
data: { word: "HELLO" },
processData: false,
cache: false,
contentType: "application/json",
dataType: "text",
success: function (response){
alert(response);
}
}
);
}
</script>
Using this code my browser receives back a response of "POST (no body found)".
What I want to do is learn, in my CherryPy handler, that I was sent a word value of "HELLO".
If I uncomment the line body = simplejson.loads(rawbody) I receive an HTML Status of 500 back from CherryPy. The same happens if I try to decorate my index() function with @cherrypy.tools.json_in().
