Question

I’m sending a POST request with json like this:

$.ajax({
     type: "POST",
     url: "myurl.htm",
     contentType: "application/json",
     data: '{"val1":"something","stuff":[{"val1":"value1","data":"Someone"}]}',
     dataType: "json"
}); 

When I look at this requet from Network its passing the following payload

{"val1":"something","stuff":[{"val1":"value1","data":"Someone"}]}

However, I want the request load to be:

mydata: {"val1":"something","stuff":[{"val1":"value1","data":"Someone"}]}

Because my controller is accepting the following:

 @RequestMapping(headers ={"Accept=application/json"},value="/myurl.htm", method= RequestMethod.POST)
 public ModelAndView mymethod(
      @RequestParam(value="mydata", required=false) String mydata {
  logger.info(mydata);
}

So I need a way to simply give a parameter name to the json data I’m sending to the server as POST request.

Answer 1

what about this? Since json is just a string and you are posting data this should work.

 $.ajax({
     type: "POST",
     url: "myurl.htm",
     contentType: "application/json",
     data: 'mydata={"val1":"something","stuff":[{"val1":"value1","data":"Someone"}]}',
     dataType: "text"
});