whacked / AJAXCall

poor man's server-side AJAX call code generator

Poor man's JavaScript ajax call generator

a barebones ajax function / call generator. Currently only targets jQuery $.ajax

usage

from AJAXCall import jQuery
jqajax = jQuery.JavaScript(
    endpoint = '/someURL',
    method = 'post',
    success = 'success_callback',
    param_list = ['foo', 'bar'],
)

then use it in your HTML output or whatever

>>> print(jqajax.create_named_function(success='override_callback'))
function ajax_someURL(bar,foo) {$.ajax({ url:"/someURL"
, method:"post"
, data:{bar:bar,foo:foo}
, success:override_callback })}

In the above example, the success parameter is being overridden at render-time. It is raw javascript. The generator is NOT javascript syntax-aware. No parsing or checking for the JS is done. This is mainly for eliminate repeatedly writing ajax functions in small projects.

Here's a minimal example for Flask:

from flask import Flask, render_template_string, request, url_for
from AJAXCall import jQuery

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/echo', methods=['POST'])
def echo():
    return str(request.values.to_dict())

@app.route('/', methods=['GET','POST'])
def index():
    return render_template_string('''\
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script>
    function mycallback(resp) {
        alert(resp)
    }
    {{ jqajax.create_named_function(success='mycallback')|safe }}
    </script>
    Note again, the param list is sorted!
    <button onclick="{{ jqajax.create_function_name() }}('Pumpkin', 'Scarecrow')">click me</button>
    ''',
        jqajax = jQuery.JavaScript(
            endpoint = url_for('.echo'),
            method = 'post',
            success = 'success_callback',
            ## note: these will be sorted, so
            ## in javascript you need to call the function with
            ## firstname, lastname
            param_list = ['lastname','firstname'],
        )
    )

app.run()