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Django 2 by Example

You're reading from   Django 2 by Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472487
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Sharing Content in Your Website 6. Tracking User Actions 7. Building an Online Shop 8. Managing Payments and Orders 9. Extending Your Shop 10. Building an E-Learning Platform 11. Rendering and Caching Content 12. Building an API 13. Going Live 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding AJAX pagination to your list views

We will need to list all bookmarked images on our website. We will use AJAX pagination to build infinite scroll functionality. Infinite scroll is achieved by loading the next results automatically when the user scrolls to the bottom of the page.

We will implement an image list view that will handle both standard browser requests and AJAX requests, including pagination. When the user initially loads the image list page, we will display the first page of images. When they scroll to the bottom of the page, we load the following page of items via AJAX and append it to the bottom of the main page.

The same view will handle both standard and AJAX pagination. Edit the views.py file of the images application and add the following code to it:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.core.paginator import Paginator, EmptyPage, \
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