Returning pure Django form errors in JSON

django json unicode django-forms lazy-evaluation

Deniz Dogan · Jun 12, 2009 · Viewed 21.3k times · Source

I have a Django form which I'm validating in a normal Django view. I'm trying to figure out how to extract the pure errors (without the HTML formatting). Below is the code I'm using at the moment.

return json_response({ 'success' : False,
                       'errors' : form.errors })

With this, I get the infamous proxy object error from Django. Forcing each error into Unicode won't do the trick either, because then each of the errors' __unicode__ method will be called effectively HTML-izing it.

Any ideas?

EDIT:

For those interested, this is the definition of json_response:

def json_response(x):
    import json
    return HttpResponse(json.dumps(x, sort_keys=True, indent=2),
                        content_type='application/json; charset=UTF-8')

Answer

This appears to have been improved. The following works in Django 1.3:

return json_response({
    'success': False,
    'errors': dict(form.errors.items()),
})

No need for __unicode__ or lazy translation any more. This also gives a full array of errors for each field.

Returning pure Django form errors in JSON

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