> 1. For some reason every click results in a javascript alert saying that 
> it Failed, even though I can successfully do stuff with the data in the 
> controller. Is there some sort of code I'm supposed to return through the 
> controller to let jquery know that it's been successful?
>

Does the add_item() function have an associated view? If not, it may be 
generating an error (when a function returns a dict(), web2py looks for an 
associated view to execute). Instead, you can just return nothing.
 

>
> 2. To be safe, I'll sanitize the expected integers like so:
>
>     def add_item():
>          # get json data as 'data' ...
>          item_id = int(data['test']['item_id'])
>          other_data = int(data['test']['some_detail'])
>    
>          # Insert that item_id and other_data into db...
>    
>     But if I expected a string, how would I sanitize that string before 
> using it to do something with the database? Is there a safe practice for 
> this type of approach of getting data from json?
>

web2py already does escaping to prevent SQL injection.

Anthony 

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