Passing js object as json to jquery?

Question

I have the following but it's not working, I read somewhere on the stackoverflow that it works like this but I can't seem to get it to work.. it errors... am I doing something wrong?

If I do pass data like this - it works -- so I know my service is working

//THIS WORKS
data: "{one : 'test',two: 'test2' }"


// BUT SETTING UP OBJECT doesn't work..

var saveData = {};
saveData.one = "test";
saveData.two = "tes2";


$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "MyService.aspx/GetDate",
    data: saveData,
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(msg) {
        alert(msg.d);
    },
    error: function(msg) {
    alert('error');
    }

});

Answer 1

I believe that code is going to call .value or .toString() on your object and then pass over the wire. You want to pass JSON.

So, include the json javascript library

http://www.json.org/js.html

And then pass...

    var saveData = {};
    saveData.one = "test";
    saveData.two = "tes2";


    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "MyService.aspx/GetDate",
        data: JSON.stringify(saveData),      // NOTE CHANGE HERE
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function(msg) {
            alert(msg.d);
        },
        error: function(msg) {
        alert('error');
        }

    });