Hi Brad,
Have a look at http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AJAXWidgetComboBox
it seems to do most of what you are after.
On 02/10/06, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello. I am trying to build a view to lookup a model field and return
> an array based on the data sent to the view. The goal is to send the
> contents of the "value" tag in an html select statement( i.e. in
> <option value=SOME_VALUE>OPTION</option> to send the SOME_VALUE part)
> to a Django view with a Dojo request call, have the Django view build
> an array based on SOME_VALUE, and ultimately send the array back
> through "return HttpResponse(array). So far I understand how to send
> the contents of the "value" tag and how to send the array back through
> the "return" statement. However, I do not know how to build the array.
> Belowe I posted a segment of my "models.py", and in it you can see that
> I will want to populate the array with valus from the model field
> "name" in the class Game. I want to use SOME_VALUE to filter out the
> rows in the field "name" that have name.id == SOME_VALUE. Any thoughts
> on how I may accomplish this? Thank you in advanced for any help that I
> may receive. Here's what I have so far:
>
> #########
> select.html
> #########
> <html>
> <head>
> <title> title </title>
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="/site_media/js/dojo/dojo.js"></script>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> dojo.require("dojo.event.*");
> dojo.require("dojo.widget.*");
> dojo.require("dojo.widget.Button");
> dojo.require("dojo.json");
>
> function helloPressed(x)
> {
> dojo.io.bind({
> url: '1/',
> handler: helloCallback,
> method: 'post',
> content: x
> });
> }
>
> function helloCallback(type, data, evt)
> {
> if (type == 'error')
> alert('Error when retrieving data from the server!');
> else
> alert(data);
> }
> </script>
>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form id="myForm" method="POST">
> <select name="staticSELECT" id="satic"
> onchange="helloPressed(this.value);">
> <option value="0"> Pick One</option>
> {% for game in games %}
> <option value="{{ game.id }}">{{ game.name }}</option>
> {% endfor %}
> </select>
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> #########
> models.py
> #########
> class Game(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(maxlength=200)
>
> class Admin:
> pass
>
> def __str__(self):
> return self.name
>
> #######
> views.py
> #######
> def select(request):
> data = "If statement not evaluated"
>
> if request.POST:
> data = "POST request received"
>
> data = unicode( data, "utf-8")
> json = simplejson.dumps(data)
> return HttpResponse(json)
>
>
> >
>
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