Sending a javascript array to django views

Question

I have the following javascript array at the client side -

["27", "28", "29", "30"] 

I am sending it to server as follows -

$.post(
  '/save/mempks/1/',
  {'data':elmArry},
  function(data){alert(data);});

On the server, I have put a debugger to see how, the data is received, and I see this unusual behaviour -

ipdb> request.POST
<QueryDict: {u'data[]': [u'27', u'28', u'29', u'30']}>

ipdb> request.POST.items()
[(u'data[]', u'30')]

ipdb> request.POST['data[]']
u'30'

All I want to do is extract, the numbers 27 to 30 and save it in a list.

Where are the numbers 27, 28, 29, and 30 are getting lost?

Could anyone suggest, why this behavior?

Answer 1

in case of posting list use request.POST.getlist('key') to get data. If you would use some kind of form for picking up posted data, then it would do it for you. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#id3