Question

I want to create a dictionary containing array and send it to GAE using jquery’s ajax request.
something like- {'a':'text', 'b':'othertext','c':['texta','textb']} which I’m creating manually.
I am able to receive and process a and b using self.request.get on GAE but not the c.

Is there any other way to create JSON object in js? Please suggest whats wrong in this method.

Answer 1

Presumably, GAE’s self.request.get is not able to serialize a complex object like a string array into a GET request format (?a=text&b=othertext...).

One workaround, although perhaps not a very neat one, would be to serialize the value to JSON yourself, and pass that:

var jsonObj = {
               'a':'text', 
               'b':'othertext', 
               'cJSON': JSON.stringify(['texta', 'textb'])
              };

… and then of course you’d have to deserialize cJSON at the receiving end.