How do I pass form data over a websocket? (socket.io)

Question

<form name="input" action="">
    <input type="text" name="say" /> 
    <input type="submit" value="send" />
</form>

I want to send the data in this form to the server via web sockets, i'm using socket.io.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Answer 1

You'd need to use .serialize() on the form like so:

var formdata = $('form').serialize();

Then pass that over the websocket. On the node.js side, you can get a JS object back by using querystring.parse:

var querystring = require('querystring');
// Data is the data received from the client
var result = querystring.parse(data);