The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

Sending JSON to your web server using AngularJS

Sending JSON with AngularJS is as easy as providing a data attribute in the argument to your $http() method call. AngularJS will even encode the object as JSON on your behalf.

How to do it...

Like before, we'll make an AJAX request. This time, we include a data attribute:

var app = angular.module("aprsapp", []);
 
app.controller("AprsController", ["$scope", "$http",
function($scope, $http) {
  $scope.json = "";
  $scope.message = "Loaded..."; 
  $scope.doAjax = function()
  {
    $scope.debug = "Fetching...";    
    $scope.json= "";
    $scope.message = "";
    var request = { 
      call: "kf6gpe-7"
    };
    var promise = $http({
      url: "/", 
      method: "POST",
      data: request
    });
  };
}]);

How it works…

We define the JavaScript object request as ...