This may be a very silly question but I'm looking at implementing ajax in my django project and the big plugin seems to be dajax/dajaxice however I can't for the life of me distinguish between the two. Could someone clear this up a little for me? Thanks.
Dajaxice is the core of the project, to quote the website:
'Its main goal is to trivialize the asynchronous communication between the django server side code and your js code.'
This means that a django / python method on the server like:
from django.utils import simplejson
from dajaxice.decorators import dajaxice_register
@dajaxice_register
def multiply(request, a, b):
result = int(a) * int(b)
return simplejson.dumps({'result' : result})
Can be called on the client using javascript:
var result = Dajaxice.calcualator.multiply(1, 2);
console.log("Dajax says 1 * 2 = "+result);
Dajax provides a series of tools that incorporate dajaxice but requires less Javascript to be used, instead relying on more Python. The multiple example is here.
I have used dajaxice on a few projects without using dajax. Also worth mentioning is Tasty Pie this creates a similar interface on the server, and using JQuery ajax helper functions like .post(), client side, little additional code is required in javascript compared to dajaxice.