Render JSON response using Django's render()

Question

I am working my way through Django's tutorial but failing to display an API response using Django's render() function.

models.py

...
class MF_Version():
    def get_MF_Version(self):
        url = 'https://www.mediafire.com/api/1.5/system/get_version.php?response_format=json'
        r = requests.get(url)
        return r
...

views.py

...
def view_Version(request):
    hr = HttpResponse(MF_Version().get_MF_Version())
    return render(request, 'mediafire/version.html', {'hr': hr})
    # return hr
...

version.html

{% if 1 %}
    {{ hr }}
{% endif %}

Browser output:

<HttpResponse status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">

MefiaFire response:

{"response":{"action":"system\/get_version","current_api_version":"1.5","result":"Success"}}

If I comment out return render(...) in the view.py file and replace it with return hr, I do see the JSON response from MediaFire, but I cannot figure out how to access action, current_api_version and result in the HTML template.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Use JsonResponse, which is available since Django 1.7

from django.http import JsonResponse

def view_Version(request):
    return JsonResponse(MF_Version().get_MF_Version())

You don't need render at all.

If you need render write it as follows (untested):

{% for x in hr %}
    {{ x }}: {{ hr.x }}
{% endfor %}

and your python code will look like:

import json
from django.http import JsonResponse

def view_Version(request):
    hr = JsonResponse(MF_Version().get_MF_Version())
    return render(request, 'mediafire/version.html', {'hr': json.loads(hr)})