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Yami Odymel
Yami Odymel

Reputation: 1908

Should a REST API server received JSON data or a normal form data with PUT?

I am building an REST API server with Node.js and jQuery with HTML5,

and there's some routes like

PUT /profile, PUT /settings to change the profile datas or the user settings,

but I don't know what type of the data should I send to the REST API server,

should I just send a normal form data like how we send a POST to the server (when the method is PUT)

or should I change the form data to json, and send a application/json via the AJAX?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 188

Answers (1)

Erez
Erez

Reputation: 63

both methods will work fine for you so it all comes down to a matter of personal preference. it's important that you are consistent across all of your APIs. personally i'm always using JSON with application/json IMHO, it's more readable.

Upvotes: 1

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