Question

I’ve got an object defined like this:

 data = {name: 'durk durk durk', site_id: 123456}

And I’ve got a function that looks like this:

function(data) { jQuery.post('www.example.com/ajax', { method: 'add', data: data } )

Which would be awesome, except it’s posting like this:

data[name]: durk durk durk
data[site_id]:  123456
method: add

When what I want is it to post like this:

name:   durk durk durk
site_id:    123456
method: add

So I thinks to myself, “Self, just take out that extra data and you’ll be all set and your coworkers will think how clever you are with your fancy object post”.

So I changed the function to this:

function(data) { jQuery.post('www.example.com/ajax', { method: 'add', data } )

Which failed spectacularly.

Please help me so I don’t have to cry myself to sleep tonight.

Thanks.

Answer 1

With the big hammer:

data.method = 'add';
function(data) { jQuery.post('www.example.com/ajax', data) …
delete data.method;

The elegant way:

function(data) { jQuery.post('www.example.com/ajax', $.extend({}, data, {'method' : 'add'})) …