I am having some problems with making jQuery work on GAE python 2.7 . The main problem is jQuery cant catch the json data returned by the server.
A simple comment form with nothing special:
<form action="/postcomment/" method="post" id="commentform">
<input type="text" name="author" id="author" onfocus="if(this.value=='Name: (required)') this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Name: (required)';" {% if name %}value="{{ name }}"{% else %}value="Name: (required)"{% endif %} size="22" tabindex="1" aria-required='true' />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" onfocus="if(this.value=='E-Mail: (required)') this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='E-Mail: (required)';" {% if email %}value="{{ email }}"{% else %}value="E-Mail: (required)"{% endif %} size="22" tabindex="2" aria-required='true' />
<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="3"></textarea>
<input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="4" value="Submit" />
</form>
My jQuery code (only structure to make it simpler):
$("#submit").click(function() {
$.ajax({
dataType: 'json',
beforeSubmit: function() {
},
timeout: 60000,
error: function(request,error) {
},
success: function(data) {
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
//blah blah...
} // End success
}); // End ajax method
});
On the server side:
class PostComment(BaseHandler):
def post(self):
self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = "application/json"
response = {'errorcode': 0}
self.response.out.write(json.dumps(response))
The result is: After I click the "submit" button, My Firefox 3.6 browser says: There is "application/json" file, do you want to open it with which tool?
I was expecting jQuery to catch this 'json' data and process it. But it didnt happen.
I believe I am almost there but something is wrong.