Question

I’m new to backbone and trying to write an html5 front end for an existing (and pretty big) REST back end. I found that when saving a model, backbone by default sends the model encoded as JSON which my existing API doesn’t support.
Is it possible to send plain simple post request with variables using backbone?

Answer 1

I think what you’re looking for is Backbone.emulateJSON = true

copied from the official documentation:

If you’re working with a legacy web server that can’t handle requests
encoded as application/json, setting Backbone.emulateJSON = true; will
cause the JSON to be serialized under a model parameter, and the
request to be made with a application/x-www-form-urlencoded mime type,
as if from an HTML form.