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Reputation: 67

Unexpeced token error when setting contentType to application/json

I am sending data using AJAX POST. The data is JSON format. See below. However, I keep getting 'Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0'. Why is this happening? The reason I am setting contentType here is so that the Boolean field checked does not get converted to string. 

var data = {
  "user": "tom",
  "number": 9,
  "checked": false
}

$.ajax({
    url: url,
    method: "POST",
    data: data,
    contentType: 'application/json',
    dataType: 'json',
    beforeSend: function (xhr) {
        xhr.setRequestHeader ("Authorization", "Basic " + btoa(username + ":" + password));
    },
    success: function (success) {
        console.log("success");
    }
});

Upvotes: 0

Views: 394

Answers (1)

charlietfl
charlietfl

Reputation: 171690

When you use contentType: 'application/json', you need to stringify the data yourself:

data: JSON.stringify(data),

As for the error that seems like a response problem. Inspect the actual request in browser dev tools network and see what is actually contained in the reponse body

Upvotes: 1

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