JsonResponse

If you want to extend your views to work with ajax you may choose to return json data in your response. To make this easier you can use JsonResponse found in ajaxtoolkit.http:

from ajaxtoolkit.http import JsonResponse

class MyView(TemplateView):

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.is_ajax:
            context = self.get_context_data()
            return JsonResponse(context)
        # ...

This will set the correct mimetype (application/json) and serialise your context data into a json object.

MsgpackResponse

MsgpackResponse works in a similar way to JsonResponse, but uses msgpack to provide with binary serialisation. The usage is the same as with JsonResponse:

def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    if request.is_ajax:
        context = self.get_context_data()
        return MsgpackResponse(context)
    # ...

Bypassing the message middleware

If you want to send an http response without attaching messages you can do that by setting the message_support attribute of the response object:

context = self.get_context_data()

response = JsonResponse(context)
response.message_support = False

return response

You can also choose to subclass the original response classes, eg.:

class MsgpackResponseWithoutMessages(MsgpackResponse):
    message_support = False

# ...