request.REQUEST truncates POST data

[colleen@…]

So I have this form (some elements removed for clarity)

    <form id="{{ section }}-submission-form{{ cell_id }}">

        <input type=hidden name="section" value="{{ section }}" />
        <input type="hidden" name="school" id="{{ section }}-submit-school{{ cell_id }}" />


        {% if section == "posts" %}
            <input type=hidden name="url" />
            <textarea class="{{ section }}txtinput{{ cell_id }}" name="text-submission"
                      default="{% if is_advice %}What's your question?{% else %}What's on your mind?{% endif %}"
                      id="{{ section }}-suggestion-box{{ cell_id }}"
                      style="margin: 0 0 .5em 0;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px; width: 410px;"
                      rows='8'></textarea>
            <br />
        {% endif %}
        {% if section == "photos" %}
            <span style='line-height: 40px;'>
            <label class="photouploadlabel">URL</label><input type="text" name="image-url" style="width: 335px" /><br>
            <label class="photouploadlabel">File</label><input type="file" name="image-file" style="width: 335px"/><br>
            <label class="photouploadlabel">Caption</label><input type="text" id="image-caption{{ cell_id }}"
                                                                  name="image-caption" style="width: 335px" default="optional"/>
            </span>
        {% endif %}


        <div id="{{ section }}-bottomdiv{{ cell_id }}" style="height: 45px; margin-top: .5em; width: 413px;">
            <div style="height: 45px">
            <label id="{{ section }}-tagsbutton{{ cell_id }}"
                   style="margin-right: .5em; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: bottom; float:left; line-height: 1.8em;">Tags</label>

            <input id="{{ section }}-tagsinput{{ cell_id }}" type="text" name="tags-list" style="position: relative"/>
                        <button id="send-{{ section }}-suggestion{{ cell_id }}" disabled="disabled"
                    style="float:right; position: relative; bottom: 7px; right: -4px;">Post</button>
            </div>

The tags-list input is turned into an autocomplete and users select tags, which are then added to a global js variable "selected tags". When the user presses "Post", I have this code:

               alert(selectedtags);
           $("#"+section+"-submission-form"+cellid).ajaxSubmit({
               url: '/save-suggestion/',
               type: 'post',
               data: {'tags': selectedtags },
               dataType: 'json',
               success: function(response){
                   clear_text(section, cellid);
                   location.reload();
               },

printing out request.POST gets me:

<QueryDict: {u'text-submission': [u'your mom is on my mind.'], u'school': [u'1997'], u'tags-list': [u''], u'url': [u''], u'section': [u'posts'], u'tags[]': [u'tigers', u'lions'], u'anonymity-level': [u'schoolandmajor']}>

(i.e. what I expect)

but printing request.REQUEST gets me:

{u'text-submission': u'your mom is on my mind.', u'school': u'1997', u'tags-list': u'', u'url': u'', u'section': u'posts', u'tags[]': u'lions', u'anonymity-level': u'schoolandmajor'}

(i.e. tags[] is truncated, as if using get instead of getlist)

[Ramiro Morales]

Are you getting any real behavior that shows request.REQUEST isn't having the value you expect or it's only the representation shown with print?

Also, I'd beg you to take a few more minutes and re-post a test case:

• With a simple HTML form that is actually a minimal expression needed to get the issue to show.
• Not using any AJAX, but using a form widget that has the same representation and use POST.

Otherwise, trying to create a setup reproducing all the same bells and whistles is nearly impossible for others.