AJAX & Web Api Post Method - How does it work?

Question

I am trying to write to my database using AJAX / Jquery and c#. Whenever I pass the parameter in to the C# code it shows as null. I am using the default template that visual

Answer 1

You can try doing something like this and use the jquery param method

    var postData = {
        name : 'name'
    }

    $('#testPostMethod').bind("click", GeneralPost);
    function GeneralPost() {
        $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: '../api/NewRecipe',
            data: $.param(postData,true),
            contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
            dataType: 'json'
        });
    }