Question

I am using a jQuery calendar to display events, which is designed to pull data from the server.
On innit the calendar fires off a AJAX request to get an array of events objects (json encoded).
All good so far.
However, this request includes a JSON encoded date and time (at leats my implimentation does).
The code looks like this:

data: function (start, end, callback) {
        $.post('/planner/GetPlannerEvents', { test: "test", start: JSON.stringify(start), end: JSON.stringify(end) }, function (result) { callback(result); });
    }

The declaration for the GetPlannerEvents controller method looks like this:

public ActionResult GetPlannerEvents(DateTime start, DateTime end)

The problem is that asp.net mvc 2 cannot seem to automatically parse the json encoded datetime and as such complains that the start and end values are null.

Is there another method I should be using to pass the javascript dates to the server so that they may be parsed correctly?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You shouldn’t be JSON encoding the dates with stringify because the default model binder doesn’t expect JSON. Try this:

$.post('/planner/GetPlannerEvents', { start: start.toUTCString(), 
    end: end.toUTCString() }, function (result) {
    callback(result); 
});