posting json to express - invalid json

Question

I am trying to post some json to a node server running express but it keeps telling me the json was invalid. But its not, its just a plain old object. Currently I get the error 'unexpected token i'

client:

$.ajax({
    contentType: 'application/json',
    type: "POST",
    url: "/admin",
    data: {id: '435ghgf545ft5345', allowed: true}
});

server:

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser({strict: false}));

app.post('/admin', function(request, response) {
    console.log(request.body);
});

I have also tried putting bodyParser.json() as the second parameter in the post route and get the error 'invalid json at parse'. I cant figure out why.

Answer 1

This code may help you :

var jsondataResource = JSON.stringify({id: '435ghgf545ft5345', allowed: true});

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST', //GET or POST or PUT or DELETE verb
    async: false,
    url: '/admin', // Location of the service
    data: jsondataResource , //Data sent to server
    contentType: 'application/json', // content type sent to server
    dataType: 'json', //Expected data format from server
    processdata: true, //True or False
    crossDomain: true,
    success: function (msg, textStatus, xmlHttp) {
        result = msg;
    },
    error: ServiceFailed  // When Service call fails
});
function ServiceFailed(result) {
alert('Service call failed: ' + result.status + '' + result.statusText);
Type = null; Url = null; Data = null; ContentType = null; DataType = null; ProcessData = null;
}