Question

I have something like this on a jsp page

   var json_text = JSON.stringify(rows, null, 2);
   $.get("/myapp/CountQuery.action", 
        {output: output,
         table: table,
         stringRows: json_text
        },
              function(data) {                
                     var text = JSON.stringify(data);
                 alert('Here is the data received ' + text);
              });

I use json2.js for my JSON needs whichs works very well. So, the stringRows I am passing is json data. The output and table however are taken from the value of textfield elements on my page. It does not make sense to mix stringRows with output and table given what they represent. Perhaps if need be, I can create a second json object containing output and table. In the function, I am getting back JSON data sent to me by a Struts 2 action with result type JSON which gives me back valid JSON data.

Here is what is happening. If I remove both output and table from my jquery call, I see log messages in oc4j and everything looks good. If I remove just stringRows, I see log messages in oc4j and everything looks good. If I have output, table and stringRows, the alert message does get activated, but I do not see any logs indicating something is not quite right. JSON data is present in the text variable in my function above, but I don’t know what is actually happening.

So my question is: Is mixing the json and non-json data inherently bad and if so which level is being fooled? I have seen other user 'json' in their jquery get calls, so I imagine it might have something to do with this.

EDIT

Too long for a comment, so here is my response:

@kingjiv I develop constantly in ie, so sometimes I do forget to check the logs. So running in chrome, the message I get is GET http://localhost:8080/myapp/CountQuery.action?output=APPN%2CBSO%2CLI&table=mytable&stringRows=%5B%0A++%5B%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22ADD%22%2C%0A++++%22%3D%22%2C%0A++++%22A%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22AND%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%0A++%5D%2C%0A++%5B%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22D%2FR%22%2C%0A++++%22%3D%22%2C%0A++++%22D%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22AND%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%0A++%5D%2C%0A++%5B%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22CIVPER%22%2C%0A++++%22%3D%22%2C%0A++++%22N%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%2C%0A++++%22AND%22%2C%0A++++%22%22%0A++%5D%0A%5D 404 (Not Found)

Answer 1

The comment by kingjiv was all it took to get my mind moving. Here is what I changed it to

   var json_text = JSON.stringify(rows, null, 2);
   $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/myapp/CountQuery.action", 
        data: "output=" + output + "&table=" + table + "&stringRows=" + json_text, 
        success: function(msg) {                  
           var text = JSON.stringify(msg);
       alert(text);
        }
   });

Now, my logging is happy to report to me what I need to know.