django - How to pass full data as it is without getting converted via GET?

Question

I'm trying to manipulate my form's action via js with the following code:

form.action = "{% url 'search.html' phrase='developer' %}"

The problem is, it converts my data to weird signs instead of passing it as it is.

http://localhost:8000/%7B%%20url%20'search.html'%20phrase='developer'%20%%7D?

How can I avoid this convertion ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65643510/how-to-pass-full-data-as-it-is-without-getting-converted-via-get

Answer 1

The problem is, it converts my data to weird signs instead of passing it as it is.

No, it does not convert anything. It here simply uses {% url 'search.html' phrase='developer' %} as the real URL, and since a URL can not use {, %, etc. as characters, it uses percent encoding [wiki].

Indeed, if you use for example a tool like url-encode-decode, then you will see that it will decode this to {% url 'search.html' phrase='developer' %}.

The reason this happens is because you apparently do not render that part of the template. This is for example the case if you use a JavaScript file that you thus serve as a static file.

You thus should make sure that the {% url … %} part is located in the template: a file where the template engine will convert this to a URL, not in a (static) file where Django never passes this to the template engine.