Question

I have tables with different column and row count as JSON on client side, e.g.:

[
  ["", "Kia", "Nissan", "Toyota", "Honda"],
  ["2008", "-5", "11", "12", "13"],
  ["2009", "20", "-11", "14", "13"],
  ["2010", "30", "15", "-12", "readOnly"]
]

I want to send this table to server via ajax and ASP.NET Web Api. What is the best way to do this?

I always get null as value when i want to post as text and receive it as [FromBody]string value. I can’t use a class because of different table sizes?

Answer 1

the answer was in the ajax code. I didn’t had the right data parameter. Right is:

$.ajax({
    url: '../webapi/Products',
    type: 'POST',
    dataType: "text", 
    data: "="+JSON.stringify( data ),
    success: function (test) {
            alert(test);
        },
        error: function (test) {
            alert("Error");
        }

then i can use e.g. JArray from JSON.NET to parse the value string.