How to change status of JsonResponse in Django
JsonResponse
normally returns HTTP 200
, which is the status code for 'OK'
. In order to indicate an error, you can add an HTTP status code to JsonResponse
as it is a subclass of HttpResponse
:
response = JsonResponse({'status':'false','message':message}, status=500)
Return an actual status
JsonResponse(status=404, data={'status':'false','message':message})
To change status code in JsonResponse
you can do this :
response = JsonResponse({'status':'false','message':message})response.status_code = 500return response