juli4nb4dillo
commented
2 weeks ago @NAYcoder I had a similar issue, I had to change a datatables from GET to POST because I was hitting URL Length limits on my server. I had to do two things:
- On client side I had to inject the
csrftoken on thePOSTcall:
<html>
...
<! -- django renders this as an input -->
{% csrf_token %}
...
</html
<script>
// get the token value
const token = $('input[name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"]').val();
const extraData = (data) => {
// Add the CSRF token to the data form so it's not blocked by Django
data.csrfmiddlewaretoken = token;
return data;
};
const table = new DataTable({
ajax: {
url: 'my/api/url?format=datatables',
method: 'POST',
data: extraData,
},
/// .. other things
});
</script>- On the server side, I was using
ReadOnlyViewSet, I had to re-wire it to useModelViewSetplusListModelMixin:
class MyListAPI(ListModelMixin, GenericViewSet):
queryset = models.MyModel.objects.all()
serializer_class = serializers.MyModelSerializer
def create(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
"""Rewire the create method to allow listing using POST method. """
return super().list(request, *args, **kwargs)
When I am using POST method, the default global search and column search is not working. The same worked when I used GET method and ViewSet. Then I changed the method to POST using ListAPIView. Then its not filtering based on the search parameters. Its giving complete list without filtering.