jquery AJAX and json format

Question

I have a webservice that expects to receive json, like so:

{\"first_name\":\"test\",\"last_name\":\"teste\",\"email\":\"moi@someplace.com\",\"mobile\":\"+44          


        

Answer 1

You aren't actually sending JSON. You are passing an object as the data, but you need to stringify the object and pass the string instead.

Your dataType: "json" only tells jQuery that you want it to parse the returned JSON, it does not mean that jQuery will automatically stringify your request data.

Change to:

$.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: hb_base_url + "consumer",
        contentType: "application/json",
        dataType: "json",
        data: JSON.stringify({
            first_name: $("#namec").val(),
            last_name: $("#surnamec").val(),
            email: $("#emailc").val(),
            mobile: $("#numberc").val(),
            password: $("#passwordc").val()
        }),
        success: function(response) {
            console.log(response);
        },
        error: function(response) {
            console.log(response);
        }
});