DRF APIView returns empty data object when using apisauce but not on browser view - reactjs

Question

I am trying to query a model to check if an object exists or not using the following APIview function. Unfortunately i am not able to receive any response object in react native apisauce get function as shown below
apisauce function
const checkIfUserExists = (email) =>
client.get("/account/user-exists/?email=" + email);
APIView class
class UserExistsView(APIView):
"""Checks if user exists or not"""
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
username = self.request.GET['email']
try:
user = models.UserProfile.objects.get(email=username)
except models.UserProfile.DoesNotExist:
return Response(data={'message': False})
else:
return Response(data={'message': True})
Results from the browser
What am i doing wrong here?
Print result on shell <Response status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">

Answer 1

You can do it simplier:
class UserExistsView(APIView):
"""Checks if user exists or not"""
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
email = self.request.GET['email']
user_exists = models.UserProfile.objects.filter(email=email).exists()
return Response(
data={'message': user_exists}
)
If you create a QuerySet and then call .exists(), Django will call the SQL function checking only if the object is in the database, but it will not query it, which is much faster and desired in your call from JS.

Answer 2

Assuming you have a class base component, You could modify your function like below, track the user existence in state. I don't see any errors in your server-side code. but in your javascript code you didn't handle the promise.
checkUserExists= (email) => {
client.get("/account/user-exists/?email=" + email)
.then(response=>{
this.setState({isUserExists : response.data.messgae})
)
}