I need assistance with setting up an API in Django as I am encountering errors in the JavaScript console. The error messages are:
GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/edit/undefined 404 (Not Found)
POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/edit/undefined 404 (Not Found)
Is there a solution to resolve this issue?
API url:
path("edit/<int:post_id>", views.edit, name="edit")views.py
def edit(request, post_id):
try:
post = Post.objects.get(user=request.user, pk=post_id)
except Post.DoesNotExist:
return JsonResponse({"error": "Post does not exist."}, status=404)
if request.method == "GET":
return JsonResponse(post.serialize())
else:
return JsonResponse({"error": "Need a GET request."}, status=404)
JavaScript
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
const editButtons = document.querySelectorAll('.edit_button');
for (const button of editButtons) {
button.addEventListener('click', () => edit_email());
}
});
function edit_email(id){
console.log("edit button is clicked")
document.querySelector('#post_itself').style.display = 'none';
document.querySelector('#date_and_time').style.display = 'none';
document.querySelector('#likes').style.display = 'none';
const textarea = document.createElement('textarea');
//get post
fetch(`/edit/${id}`)
.then(response => response.json())
.then(post => {
textarea.innerHTML = `${post.post}`
document.querySelector('#p_user').append(textarea);
})
//save the post
fetch(`/edit/${id}`,{
method: 'POST',
post: JSON.stringify({
post: textarea.value
})
})
}
HTML
{% for post in page_obj.object_list %}
<div class = "individual_posts">
<a href="{% url 'username' post.user %}"><h5 id="p_user" class = "post_user">{{ post.user }}</h5></a>
<h6 id = "post_itself">{{ post.post }}</h6>
<h6 id="date_and_time" class = "post_elements">{{ post.date_and_time }}</h6>
<h6 id="likes" class = "post_elements">{{ post.likes }}👍</h6>
{% if post.user == request.user %}
<button id="editButton" class="edit_button">Edit</button>
{% endif %}
</div>
{% endfor %}
I suspect that there may be an issue in how I am passing the id to the API. Could the for loop in the HTML file possibly be causing this problem?
models.py
class User(AbstractUser):
followers = models.ManyToManyField("self", related_name="users_followers", symmetrical=False)
following = models.ManyToManyField("self", related_name ="who_user_is_following", symmetrical=False)
def serialize(self):
return{
"followers": self.followers,
"following": self.following
}
class Post(models.Model):
post = models.TextField()
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default="")
likes = models.IntegerField(default=0)
date_and_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
def serialize(self):
return{
"id": self.id,
"post": self.post,
"user": self.user,
"likes": self.likes,
"date_and_time": self.date_and_time
}