Posting a File and Associated Data to a RESTful WebService preferably as JSON

Question

This is probably going to be a stupid question but I\'m having one of those nights. In an application I am developing RESTful API and we want the client to send data as JSON

Answer 1

FormData Objects: Upload Files Using Ajax

XMLHttpRequest Level 2 adds support for the new FormData interface. FormData objects provide a way to easily construct a set of key/value pairs representing form fields and their values, which can then be easily sent using the XMLHttpRequest send() method.

function AjaxFileUpload() {
    var file = document.getElementById("files");
    //var file = fileInput;
    var fd = new FormData();
    fd.append("imageFileData", file);
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open("POST", '/ws/fileUpload.do');
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
        if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
             alert('success');
        }
        else if (uploadResult == 'success')
             alert('error');
    };
    xhr.send(fd);
}

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FormData