Peter: Thanks for the reply. I do have DEBUG=True. I have tried both 1/0 and assert false; but both times I don't get the debug information rather just 'Processing ....' from jquery and it is just blank.
This happens in both firefox and IE. I'm puzzled on this. Let me see if I can debug jQuery and come back. In the mean time, if you have any other suggestion, feel free to let me know. Thanks, Joseph On May 23, 8:49 pm, Peter Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However when I get the query from > > request.POST, it throws up server error (500). > > Well, I kind of doubt that jQuery in the browser is causing a 500 > error on the server. > > I strongly recommend setting DEBUG=True in your settings.py file. > Django gives you a perfectly lovely, formatted stack trace, complete > with source code windows and local variables. > > > > if request.POST.has_key('query'): > > query = unicode(request.POST['query']) > > qfld = unicode(request.POST['qtype']) > > if (query): > > qfilter= {"%s__contains" % qfld : query} > > books = Book.objects.filter(**qfilter) > > The first guess I would make is that one of the if conditions > evaluates to False and then later code (maybe in the context being > passed to the template) is referencing a variable that was never set. > > > (From front end, I am passing the same values - cep and publisher) > > My gut says this may not be a correct statement. Once you have DEBUG > turned on you may immediately see the error of your ways. If not, > trying putting a statement of 1/0 just before the first if. This will > cause a Divide by Zero error, and give you that stack trace *and* all > of the environment values that Django has. > > HTH, > Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---