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Yii2 and Ajax: How to send JSON object of arrays?

I am using Yii2 framework I need to send an array containing id of person and an array of id of groups from client to server.
I got the data from a Select2 component using jQuery. Then the server will response so the client can show it in a form. I mean it is not a Create or Update button of Yii2.
The client side send this json object:
var jsonData = {
persons: 111,
groups: [222, 333]
};
$.ajax({
url: "/persons/persons?idsGroups=",
data: jsonData,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(res) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(res, null, 4));
}
});
From ther server I need to get the groups but it doens't work:
public function getMyGroups($groups) {
return $groups;
}
My browser shows:
error{"readyState":4,"responseText":"Bad Request (#400): Invalid data received for parameter \"groups\".","status":400,"statusText":"Bad Request"}
But if I change the getMyGroups function to get the persons variable, it works:
public function getMyGroups($persons) {
return $persons;
My browser shows:
111
So what this error means? I think I am sending data in a wrong way but I don't know how to fix it.

I resolved in this way using this help: https://api.jquery.com/jquery.post/
var jsonData = {
'persons': 111,
'groups[]': [222, 333]
};
$.post("/persons/persons", jsonData)
.done(function(data) {
console.log("Data loaded: " + data);
});

MVC 5 generate form data with AJAX

I need a way to generate a new unique id for a user when a person focuses out of a textbox. I am using MVC 5 for this application. Here is my controller, everything in the controller has been unit tested and it does return the string value that I need.
Controller. I was able to visit that URL, and I did download a JSON file with the correct data.
public ActionResult GetNewId()
{
string newId = utils.newEmployeeId();
return Json(new {eId = newId}, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
Javascript, JQuery call to that controller. I do not know how to properly reference the ActionResult. I keep getting undefined errors on eId.
$(function () {
$('#employeeId').focusout(function () {
if($("#employeeId").val() === "NP")
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: '#Html.ActionLink("GetNewId", "Employees")',
data: { 'eId': eId },
dataType: 'json',
success: function (response) {
$("#employeeId").val(eId);
},
error: function (response) {
alert(response);
}
});
});
});

The problem is with yout ajax request:
1.you need to change the url in the reuqest but it like this
{{yourcontroller}/GetNewId}
2.remove the "data: { 'eId': eId }" you dont need it, youre not posting anything to the server.
change your $("#employeeId").val(eId); to
$("#employeeId").val(response.eId);
this will 100% work

Parse a json reply from a jquery result in php

I have a simple search form which query an external server for result with jquery
$("#formsearch").on("submit", function (event) {
// everything looks good!
event.preventDefault();
submitFormSearch();
});
function submitFormSearch(){
// Initiate Variables With Form Content
var searchinput = $("#searchinput").val();
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "https://external-server/api/",
headers: {"Authorization": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"},
data: "action=Search&query="+searchinput,
success:function(json){
console.log(json);
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url:'search_func.php',
data: "func=parse&json="+json,
success:function(data) {
console.log(data);
$('#risultato_ricerca').html(data);
}
});
}
});
}
The first GET ajax works properly and I get correct data but trying to send this json data to my php script in post I can't get data.
This is the code in search_func.php
if(isset($_POST['func']) && !empty($_POST['func'])){
switch($_POST['func']){
case 'parse':
parse($_POST['json']);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
function parse($json) {
$obj = json_decode($json,true);
var_dump($obj);
}
... it displays NULL
Where I'm wrong ?
EDIT:
SOLVED
changing:
data: "func=parse&json="+json,
to:
data: { func: 'parse', json: JSON.stringify(json) },
json code is correctly passed to search_func.php
Changed function parse in php file to:
function parse($json) {
$data = json_decode(stripslashes($json),true);
print_r($data);
}
Thank you.

Is the javascript json variable correctly filled (i.e. what does your console show you?) Possible you must encode the json variable to a string before posting.
i.e: instead of data: "func=parse&json="+json, use data: "func=parse&json="+JSON.stringify(json),

See this: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/
The correct syntax is: data: { func: 'parse', json: my_json_here }
If this doesn't works is probably that you have to encode the JSON to a string (see JSON.stringify())

Third parameter of $.post() is not working

I am sending a post request to the REST web service using the following code:
<script type="application/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#logbutton").click(function(event){
$.post(
"http://localhost:8080/CredentialsOnDemand/loginexpert/dologin",
{
ephone: $("#mobile").val(),
epassword: $("#password").val()
},
function(data) {
data = $.parseJSON( data );
$(".ray").html("$" + data.tag);
console.log( "You clicked a paragraph!" );
}
);
});
});
The web service gives a JSON response in format below:
{"tag":"login","status":true}
The call from the jquery code is running i.e. the web service is running fine, but the function that I have created to parse JSON is not working.
NOTE:
I tried to run this code without providing any value in the text field. The console displayed the json response and also console.log line. But when I again entered the values into the fields, then it didn't. I am unable to understand this thing.
Anyone having any idea?
Thanks in advance.

You could try the more verbose and detailed form using $.ajax:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#logbutton").click(function(event) {
var req = {
ephone: $("#mobile").val(),
epassword: $("#password").val()
};
$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost:8080/CredentialsOnDemand/loginexpert/dologin",
data: req,
dataType: 'json',
type: 'POST'
}).done(function(data) {
console.log(data);
$(".ray").html("$" + data.tag);
console.log("You clicked a paragraph!");
}).fail(function(err) {
console.error(err);
});
});
});
This will be easier for you to pinpoint where the error is coming from

HttpClient PostAsync equivalent in JQuery with FormURLEncodedContent instead of JSON

I wrote a JQuery script to do a user login POST (tried to do what I have done with C# in the additional information section, see below).
After firing a POST with the JQuery code from my html page, I found the following problems:
1 - I debugged into the server side code, and I know that the POST is received by the server (in ValidateClientAuthentication() function, but not in GrantResourceOwnerCredentials() function).
2 - Also, on the server side, I could not find any sign of the username and password, that should have been posted with postdata. Whereas, with the user-side C# code, when I debugged into the server-side C# code, I could see those values in the context variable. I think, this is the whole source of problems.
3 - The JQuery code calls function getFail().
? - I would like to know, what is this JQuery code doing differently than the C# user side code below, and how do I fix it, so they do the same job?
(My guess: is that JSON.stringify and FormURLEncodedContent do something different)
JQuery/Javascript code:
function logIn() {
var postdata = JSON.stringify(
{
"username": document.getElementById("username").value,
"password": document.getElementById("password").value
});
try {
jQuery.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "http://localhost:8080/Token",
cache: false,
data: postdata,
dataType: "json",
success: getSuccess,
error: getFail
});
} catch (e) {
alert('Error in logIn');
alert(e);
}
function getSuccess(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
alert('getSuccess in logIn');
alert(data.Response);
};
function getFail(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
alert('getFail in logIn');
alert(jqXHR.status); // prints 0
alert(textStatus); // prints error
alert(errorThrown); // prints empty
};
};
Server-side handling POST (C#):
public override async Task ValidateClientAuthentication(
OAuthValidateClientAuthenticationContext context)
{
// after this line, GrantResourceOwnerCredentials should be called, but it is not.
await Task.FromResult(context.Validated());
}
public override async Task GrantResourceOwnerCredentials(
OAuthGrantResourceOwnerCredentialsContext context)
{
var manager = context.OwinContext.GetUserManager<ApplicationUserManager>();
var user = await manager.FindAsync(context.UserName, context.Password);
if (user == null)
{
context.SetError(
"invalid_grant", "The user name or password is incorrect.");
context.Rejected();
return;
}
// Add claims associated with this user to the ClaimsIdentity object:
var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(context.Options.AuthenticationType);
foreach (var userClaim in user.Claims)
{
identity.AddClaim(new Claim(userClaim.ClaimType, userClaim.ClaimValue));
}
context.Validated(identity);
}
Additional information: In a C# client-side test application for my C# Owin web server, I have the following code to do the POST (works correctly):
User-side POST (C#):
//...
HttpResponseMessage response;
var pairs = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>
{
new KeyValuePair<string, string>( "grant_type", "password"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>( "username", userName ),
new KeyValuePair<string, string> ( "password", password )
};
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(pairs);
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
var tokenEndpoint = new Uri(new Uri(_hostUri), "Token"); //_hostUri = http://localhost:8080/Token
response = await client.PostAsync(tokenEndpoint, content);
}
//...

Unfortunately, dataType controls what jQuery expects the returned data to be, not what data is. To set the content type of the request data (data), you use contentType: "json" instead. (More in the documentation.)
var postdata = JSON.stringify(
{
"username": document.getElementById("username").value,
"password": document.getElementById("password").value
});
jQuery.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "http://localhost:8080/Token",
cache: false,
data: postdata,
dataType: "json",
contentType: "json", // <=== Added
success: getSuccess,
error: getFail
});
If you weren't trying to send JSON, but instead wanted to send the usual URI-encoded form data, you wouldn't use JSON.stringify at all and would just give the object to jQuery's ajax directly; jQuery will then create the URI-encoded form.
try {
jQuery.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "http://localhost:8080/Token",
cache: false,
data: {
"username": document.getElementById("username").value,
"password": document.getElementById("password").value
},
dataType: "json",
success: getSuccess,
error: getFail
});
// ...

To add to T.J.'s answer just a bit, another reason that sending JSON to the /token endpoint didn't work is simply that it does not support JSON.
Even if you set $.ajax's contentType option to application/json, like you would to send JSON data to MVC or Web API, /token won't accept that payload. It only supports form URLencoded pairs (e.g. username=dave&password=hunter2). $.ajax does that encoding for you automatically if you pass an object to its data option, like your postdata variable if it hadn't been JSON stringified.
Also, you must remember to include the grant_type=password parameter along with your request (as your PostAsync() code does). The /token endpoint will respond with an "invalid grant type" error otherwise, even if the username and password are actually correct.

You should use jquery's $.param to urlencode the data when sending the form data . AngularJs' $http method currently does not do this.
Like
var loginData = {
grant_type: 'password',
username: $scope.loginForm.email,
password: $scope.loginForm.password
};
$auth.submitLogin($.param(loginData))
.then(function (resp) {
alert("Login Success"); // handle success response
})
.catch(function (resp) {
alert("Login Failed"); // handle error response
});
Since angularjs 1.4 this is pretty trivial with the $httpParamSerializerJQLike:
.controller('myCtrl', function($http, $httpParamSerializerJQLike) {
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: baseUrl,
data: $httpParamSerializerJQLike({
"user":{
"email":"wahxxx#gmail.com",
"password":"123456"
}
}),
headers:
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
})
})