I have a form on my website which collects data and posts using jquery to be handled using c#. I use request.form to capture the form data.
My friend said to create a JavaScript object to pass the data through instead of loads of variables. My problem is when you post an object with value pairs how do you get c# to obtain the values from the object because I can't seem to use request.form now.
Have you looked at JSON.Net? That makes JSON (de)serialization pretty easy
Json.js has Stringify() which convert your js object to Json String so in C# you can deserialize this string back to an object
.NET has a built in JavaScript (i.e. JSON) serializer. It is in System.Web.Extensions.
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
// To serialize
Dictionary<string, object> test = new Dictionary<string, object>(){ { "a", 1 } };
string json = serializer.Serialize(test);
// To deserialize (convert back to a .NET object)
Dictionary<string, object> result = serializer.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(json);
You can use 1 hidden field and put a JSON value/pair string in that field and then parse it server-side.
I have managed to fix the issue. When posting the data I had to use Request instead of Request.Form. Now the values are being passed back. Sorry if I did not include any code and I think the question I asked was a bit ambiguous.
