I'm in need of some desperate help. I've been at this for 4 hours, and I'm getting pretty worn out. :/ Here's my situation:
I have a Javascript application that is making a POST request (using jQuery $.post) to an external site. On the external site I have Apache Camel running with Jetty to expose it to the web. The web services I wrote in Camel expect JSON data for all of the requests. For instance, one request needs an id, so I send it {"id": 10}.
Here's my issue: it doesn't work from Javascript. I have a few different tools that will send post requests for me (like the Poster extension for browsers). If I use Poster and set the body to {"id": 10}, it works just fine. I get that exact string in the service.
But, if I post from Javascript, I get something different. Posting the JSON object will give me the string "id=10" on my service side. (It's OK for this scenario, but I will need actual JSON objects eventually.) If I stringify the JSON object, I get the JSON string, only all of the characters are escaped. (Ex. "%7Bid%33...").
I swear I've tried every method possible for posting the data, but I either get the weird already parsed JSON, or the escaped string (or nothing at all). Is there some way I can have Javascript NOT parse the JSON object and just send it (like my posting tool does)? If not, is there a safe, efficient way to un-escape the JSON string that I get?
I really appreciate any help.
I feel like we need a little bit more information, but take a look at this javascript plugin. It may be your solution: https://github.com/flowersinthesand/jquery-stringifyJSON
