Unsure, but try this ...
var searchParams = { a: 10, b: "hello", c: Object.toJSON($R(0,40)) };
On 06/02/2008, Mike Pelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to send a javascript object to the server using Ajax.Request
> and have the parameters show up as entries in the params hash. My
> javascript object contains other objects (e.g. prototype range
> objects) and I'd like to maintain the same structure in my params hash
> in my action function.
>
> Initially I tried somthing like this:
>
> var searchParams = { a: 10, b: "hello", c: $R(0,40) }
>
> var stuff = new Ajax.Request('/browse/get_stuff', {
> method: 'get',
> parameters: Object.toQueryString(searchParams)
> });
>
> This almost works perfectly, but the range turns into "[Object
> object]" and params.inspect returns this:
>
> {"a"=>10, "b"=>"hello", "c"=>"[object Object]",
> "action"=>"get_stuff", "controller"=>"browse"}
>
> After reading a bit, I've come to understand that for nested objects
> the preferred method is Object.toJSON rather than
> Object.toQueryString. So I changed my code to this:
>
> var searchParams = { a: 10, b: "hello", c: $R(0,40) }
>
> var stuff = new Ajax.Request('/browse/get_stuff', {
> method: 'get',
> parameters: Object.toJSON(searchParams)
> });
>
> But parameters turns into a single string, rather than individual
> entries in params, and params.inspect returns this:
>
> {"action"=>"get_stuff", "{\"a\": 10, \"b\": \"hello\", \"c\":
> {\"start\": 0, \"end\": 40}}"=>nil, "controller"=>"browse"}
>
> How can I get my object hash into Ruby as a hash?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
> >
>
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