How to implement Django Form using Minimal jQuery Ajax [ Level of question - Intermediate ]

If you were to replace the code marked [from here - till here] with som开发者_开发问答ething minimalistic what would it be?

$('#post_form').submit(function(event){

            event.preventDefault();
            var data = {}

            // From here
           data.k = $('#k').val(); //'k' would be the id of some input field
            data.j = $('#j').val(); //and so on for 'l', 'm' , 'n' etc. you get it
            .......
            // Till here

            $.post("/ajax/post_test/", 
                data, 
                function(responseData) {
                  // handle the response
                },
                "json"

            );
        });

It would be awesome if this 'data' object could be directly used in Django as a form and hence be able to leverage Django's inbuilt validation system.

The ideal answer would look something like this -

data = $('#post_form').DumpData()

And if anybody feeling really kind today could you also please tell me how i can handle the response as well? I would be really really grateful. Thank you guys.

P.S. Save my soul.

You are looking for the serialize method:

The .serialize() method creates a text string in standard URL-encoded notation. It operates on a jQuery object representing a set of form elements.

So it doesn't give you an object, but it works as the data parameter for a jQuery AJAX call.

If you really want them as an object, there's serializeArray, which isn't exactly there as it is an array of objects with names and values, but you could then turn it into a one-level object.