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johncorser
johncorser

Reputation: 9842

How to send an http request with parameters to rails from javascript

I'm attempting to test a sample project at 

http://162.243.232.223:3000/api/query

This is a rails project.

The rails controller is looking for a params hash like params[:query]['input']

In javascript, I am using jquery like this:

$.get('http://162.243.232.223:3000/api/query')

which get the expected default output.

However, I'd like to send in my own params more along the lines of this:

$.get('http://162.243.232.223:3000/api/query', { 'input': 'my_input' })

However, for whatever reason, this is returning errors, the 

{ 'input': 'my_input' }

argument is not being passed as 

params[:query]['input']

into Rails.

Any ideas on how I could start getting non-default responses back from Rails?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 633

Answers (2)

V31
V31

Reputation: 7666

In some cases when the server is not getting the input params like this how you had mentioned you need to apply this instead:

$.param({
        json: JSON.stringify({
            'input': 'my_input'
        })
    });

Upvotes: 0

rabusmar
rabusmar

Reputation: 4143

The way you have it now you would access it simply with params[:input]. The params hash gets all path, get and post variables in a single hash.

Upvotes: 1

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