django: return string from view

I know this is a simple question, sorry. I just want to return a simple string, no templates.

I have my view:

def myview(request):
    return "return this string"

I don't remember the command. Thanks

According to the documentation:

A view function, or view for short, is simply a Python function that takes a Web request and returns a Web response.

Each view function is responsible for returning an HttpResponse object.

In other words, your view should return a HttpResponse instance:

from django.http import HttpResponse

def myview(request):
    return HttpResponse("return this string")

If you create a chat-bot or need this response on post request for confirmation - you should add decorator, otherwise Django block post requests. More info you can find here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/csrf/

Also in my case I had to add content_type="text/plain".

from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_protect
from django.http import HttpResponse
@csrf_exempt
def Index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello World", content_type="text/plain")

You can't send directly a string, but you can send a JSON object:

from django.http import JsonResponse

def myview(request):
    return JsonResponse({'mystring':"return this string"})

Then process that. With Javascript for example if the page was requested by AJAX:

$.ajax({url: '/myview/',    type: 'GET',
                            data: data,
                            success: function(data){ 
                                console.log(data.mystring);
                                ...
                                 }
                            })

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/request-response/#jsonresponse-objects

we use HttpResponse to render the Data

HttpResponse to render the Text

from django.http import HttpResponse
def Index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello World")

HttpResponse to render the HTML

from django.http import HttpResponse
    def Index(request):
        text = """<h1>Hello World</h1>"""
        return HttpResponse(text)

urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('about/',views.aboutview),
    path('',views.homeview),
]

views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

def aboutview(request):
  return HttpResponse("<h1>about page</h1>")

def homeview(request):
  return HttpResponse("<h1>home page</h1>")

django: return string from view

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