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[Adrian Holovaty]

bruno at modulix wrote:
> Adrian, what you describe here is *exactly* what I call "no Ajax
> support": you have to handle the whole thing manually, the framework
> doesn't provide anything by itself. Would you say the CGI module offers
> support for templating, data persistance and Ajax as well ?-)

Hey Bruno,

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Here's the Django code I use on the
Ajax bit of the chicagocrime.org "Find your District" page
(http://www.chicagocrime.org/districts/). See the "Guess district"
button on that page.

"""
def rpc_guess_district(request, longitude, latitude):
    try:
        b = beats.guess_by_coordinates(float(longitude),
float(latitude))
    except beats.BeatDoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponse("Looks like you're not centered on a point
in Chicago. " + \
            "Please move the map to Chicago and try again.")
    return HttpResponse("You're centered on %s" %
b.get_name_and_district())
"""

My point is, you don't need a huge serialization framework to do Ajax
easily. As long as a server can return snippets of code (or even plain
text), you can do it.

These pages work the same way:
    http://www.chicagocrime.org/map/
    http://www.chicagocrime.org/wards/
    http://www.chicagocrime.org/route/

Hope that clears up my point of view,
Adrian