On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:08 AM, juanduke wrote:
> Have a question (possible very simple).
>
> In my view, I've some js code that append data to a js array like this:
> myarray.push({someKey: "someValue", anotherKey: "another value"})
> after a few pushes, I'm gettin an array like this
> myarray[0] : {someKey: "someValue", anotherKey: "another value"}
> myarray[1] : {someKey: "someValue2", anotherKey: "another value2"}
>
> This is going fine, but at some point need to send this data to some
> controller to load something
> So using jquery.load (url to controller, { data: myarray }, function(){ ...do
> something.. }
> A can see (with firebug) the request vars is something like: (this format is
> jquery's magic i think)
>
> myarray[0][somekey]: someValue
> myarray[0][anotherKey]: anotherKey
> myarray[0][somekey]: someValue2
> myarray[0][anotherKey]: anotherKey2
>
> This goes excelent, at the point to get this variables values from the
> request object in the controller
> if using
> request.vars.myarray
> request.vars.myarray[0]
> request.vars.myarray[0][somekey]
> and similars, generate a ticket sayin that is NoneType
>
> if I list vars with request.vars.getlist, get vars and values as expected,
> and using get_vars['myarray[0][somekey]'] return a ticket saying
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable
>
> I hope to be clear. Help is apreciated, and sorry for my bad english!!
>
request.vars isn't going to be very good at handling complex data structures
like this--anything but a string dictionary, really.
One approach might be to JSON-encode myarray before you make the load call:
jQuery.load(url, { data:myarray_encoded }, ...
...and then decode the result in your controller.
