jquery-form/form

Post json within request body

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#545 opened on Mar 4, 2018

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Description

This is a feature request, and I think it's raised in #531 but misunderstanded

Description:

Now only form data format is supported in this plugin, I'd like to post json data in post body (like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5570747/jquery-posting-json)

In jquery it can be done with code below:

$.ajax(url, {
    data : JSON.stringify(myJSObject),
    contentType : 'application/json',
    type : 'POST',
    ...

Expected Behavior:

With option:

contentType : 'application/json',

Request body like this :

{"name":"apple","count":"1"}

Actual behavior:

Unsupported, now only encoded form data can be in post body Request body like this:

name=apple&count=1

Why

It's quite common in now days for communicating with server in protocol of json instead of form data, so this feature is needed.

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Research direction
Review how form data is serialized and sent in the plugin, then add support for JSON content type by checking the contentType option and serializing data with JSON.stringify.
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javascript
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