Question

here is the jquery

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "/posthere",
    dataType: "json",
    data: {myDict:{'1':'1', '2':'2'}},
    success: function(data){
        //do code
    }
});

Here is the python

@route("/posthere", method="POST")
def postResource(myDict):
    #do code
    return "something"

It looks like the the url formats on support int, float, path, and re… am I missing something?

Answer 1

There are only bytes on the wire. To send an object you need to serialize it using some data format e.g., json:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "/posthere",
    data: JSON.stringify({myDict: {'1':'1', '2':'2'}}),
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(data){
        alert(data);
    },
    failure: function(err) {
        alert(err);
    }
});

On the receiving end you need to parse json text into Python object:

from bottle import request, route

@route("/posthere", method="POST")
def postResource():
    #do code
    myDict = request.json['myDict']
    return {"result": "something"}

Returned dictionaries are automatically converted to json.