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this is my client side ajax call:

    var list = ["a", "b", "c", "d"];

    var jsonText = { data: list };

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/api/scheduledItemPriceStatus/updateStatusToDelete",
        data: jsonText,
        dataType: "json",
        traditional: true,
        success: function() { alert("it worked!"); },
        failure: function() { alert("not working..."); }
    });

this is chrome network header:

Request URL:http://localhost:2538/api/scheduledItemPriceStatus/updateStatusToDelete

Request Method:POST

Request Headersview source

Accept:application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01

Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch

Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8

Connection:keep-alive

Content-Length:27

Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

Host:localhost:2538

Origin:http://localhost:2538

Referer:http://localhost:2538/Pricing/ScheduledItemPrices

User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11

X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest

Form Dataview URL encoded

data:a
data:b
data:c
data:d

this is my webapi controller method:

public HttpResponseMessage UpdateStatusToDelete(string[] data)

result:

when I debug, the data parameter in UpdateStatusToDelete returns {string[0]} instead of data:a data:b data:c data:d

What am I doing wrong? Any help is really appreciated.

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Hmmm, I think you should directly pass the list variable as the data field in your ajax call. Right now, it looks like you are passing an object which has an array of strings as a member field called "data". –  Ameen Jan 8 '13 at 5:51
    
does that first line compile..? var list = ["a", "b", "c", "d"]? it should be like this string[] list = {"a", "b", "c", "d"}; –  DJ KRAZE Jan 8 '13 at 5:52
    
@Eunyoung Ro look at my comment do you have a typo..? also are you sure that code compiles..? –  DJ KRAZE Jan 8 '13 at 6:02

2 Answers 2

up vote 3 down vote

For passing simply types, the data to post must take the form of a name value pair with the name portion being an empty string. So you need to make the Ajax call like so:

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "/api/values",
  data: { "": list },
  dataType: "json",
  success: function() { alert("it worked!"); },
  failure: function() { alert("not working..."); }
});

Additionally, on your Web API action, annotate it w/ the [FromBody] attribute. Something like:

public void Post([FromBody]string[] values)

That should do the trick.

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up vote 1 down vote

use var jsonText = { data: JSON.stringify(list)}

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Chris there is now from what I can tell that the list portion will compile.. check the code out and tell me.... [] should be { } –  DJ KRAZE Jan 8 '13 at 5:54
    
yes [] should be {} –  Cris Jan 8 '13 at 5:57

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