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Asked: 2026-05-19T04:55:59+00:00

TLDR : is PUT /users/1 with user={name: ‘John’} , as opposed to user[name]=John ,

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TLDR: is PUT /users/1 with user="{name: 'John'}", as opposed to user[name]="John", OK?

I love REST. Recently, I find myself storing a lot of my data in client-side JavaScript objects. It seems converting them to form-parameters like

user[name] = "John", user[login] = "jdoe"

is unnecessary ugly, since they’ll just be reconstructed at the server as something like

{user: {name: 'John', login: "jdoe"} }

Advice, Internet? Shall I have the frameworks do the conversion for me? Should I use JSON? Should I start using BSON instead, since it preserves types like Date? 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    As long as the parameters are in the request body (i.e. not sent as query parameters) and the content type is set appropriately, I don’t see there being any problem with it, RESTfully.

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