Fix for Django 4.0 removed functions

[fraimondo]

This PR makes is compatible with Django 4.0.

[morlandi]

Thank you @fraimondo I will merge this soon ;)

[fraimondo]

Got a better and more "correct" solution. I'll push it soon.

[fraimondo]

Indeed ugettext_lazy has been an alias of gettext_lazy since Django 2.0. And since the readme states that Django 1.x is not supported anymore, no need to do this try stuff.

[morlandi]

Indeed ugettext_lazy has been an alias of gettext_lazy since Django 2.0. And since the readme states that Django 1.x is not supported anymore, no need to do this try stuff.

Totally agree 😉

[morlandi]

@fraimondo could you kindly share a link on why request.accepts('application/json') is a suitable replacement for the deprecated is_ajax() ?

[fraimondo]

That was actually a hard one:

django/django#12091
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30997

By digging in the PR and the associated ticket is_ajax relies on the jquery way of doing ajax calls. Instead of that, the idea is to use the kind of expected content by the request. If the request is expecting a json, then we consider it as an Ajax call.

[morlandi]

@fraimondo I tried to merge this PR but got the following exception:

  File "/Users/morlandi/Projects/github_public/django-ajax-datatable/ajax_datatable/views.py", line 371, in dispatch
    if request.accepts('application/json'):
AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'accepts'

runnng the example project with Django v 3.0.8 and Python 3.8.11

By inspecting the requests namespaces, accepts() seems to be missing, indeed:

ipdb> dir(request)
['COOKIES', 'FILES', 'GET', 'META', 'POST', 'REQUEST', 'class', 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir', 'doc', 'eq', 'format', 'ge', 'getattribute', 'gt', 'hash', 'init', 'init_subclass', 'iter', 'le', 'lt', 'module', 'ne', 'new', 'reduce', 'reduce_ex', 'repr', 'setattr', 'sizeof', 'str', 'subclasshook', 'weakref', '_body', '_current_scheme_host', '_encoding', '_files', '_get_full_path', '_get_post', '_get_raw_host', '_get_scheme', '_initialize_handlers', '_load_post_and_files', '_mark_post_parse_error', '_messages', '_post', '_read_started', '_set_content_type_params', '_set_post', '_stream', '_upload_handlers', 'body', 'build_absolute_uri', 'close', 'content_params', 'content_type', 'encoding', 'environ', 'get_full_path', 'get_full_path_info', 'get_host', 'get_port', 'get_raw_uri', 'get_signed_cookie', 'headers', 'is_ajax', 'is_secure', 'method', 'parse_file_upload', 'path', 'path_info', 'read', 'readline', 'readlines', 'resolver_match', 'scheme', 'session', 'upload_handlers', 'user']

Any suggestion ?

[fraimondo]

Indeed I just figured out it's specific for Django 4.0. I can think of creating is_ajax in utils.py and doing the if there.

[PetrDlouhy]

@fraimondo According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63629935/django-3-1-and-is-ajax I fixed this with following function in django-experiments project:

def is_ajax(request):
    return request.META.get('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH') == 'XMLHttpRequest'

[fraimondo]

@fraimondo According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63629935/django-3-1-and-is-ajax I fixed this with following function in django-experiments project:

def is_ajax(request):
    return request.META.get('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH') == 'XMLHttpRequest'

The main issue with this approach is that it is exactly why they deprecated and later removed it. The X-Requested-With heather is nonstandard and set by JQuery.

[morlandi]

then why not using either request.accepts('application/json') or request.is_ajax() depending on the version of Django as detected at run-time ?

[fraimondo]

That was my plan, but I did not have time to take care of that yet. I’ll do it soon.

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[morlandi]

never mind, take your time 😉

[morlandi]

I finally opted for this:

        try:
            is_ajax_request = request.accepts("application/json")
        except AttributeError as e:
            # Django < 4.0
            is_ajax_request = request.is_ajax()

        if is_ajax_request:
            ...