passing parameter from angular $http.get to django views.py through url

Question

I'm trying to do a GET request from angular passing through a parameter to django's view.py.
The url that I'm getting back is /contact/api/getName?name=John and neither of them is hitting api_get_client_info in views.py because the string and values inside api_get_client_info are being printed. But I am getting a "success" message after the request.

HTML:

      <select ng-change="selectName(name)" ng-model="name">
        <option value="" disabled>Select from List</option>
        <option ng-repeat="name in nameList" value="{{name.Name}}"> {{name.Name}} </option>
      </select>

$http.get request in angular controller:

        $scope.selectName= function(name){
    Method 1: 
            $http.get("/contact/api/getName", {params: {"personName": name}})
            .success(function(response) {
                console.log("success");
            })
            .error(function(response){
                console.log("failed");
            })

    Method 2:
           $http({
             method:'GET',
             url: '/contact/api/getName?=' + name 
           })
           .success(function(data) {
             console.log("success");
           })
           .error(function(data){
             console.log("failed");
           })
       }

Django url.py

urlpattern = [
  url(r'^api/getName(?P<personName>[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/$', views.api_get_person_info),
  url(r'', views.main, name='contact',
]

Django views.py

def api_get_person_info(request):
    print("here")
    person = request.GET.get("personName")
    print(person)

Answer 1

I presume you mean the statements inside api_get_person_info are not being printed.

This is because your URL doesn't match. Your pattern expects the personName within the URL itself: ie api/getName/John/ , but you are passing the parameter in the query string, api/getName?personName=John . You should make the pattern just r'^api/getName$' .

The reason why you are getting a 200 is because the second pattern, for contact , does match; you haven't terminated the regex, so it matches everything. That pattern should be r'^$' .