JQuery

POST-ing JSON to an ASP.NET Web API controller

So you want to post some JSON to an ASP.NET Web API controller?

I bet you’ve written this more than you wanted to:

$.ajax({
	type: "POST",
	url: url,
	data: JSON.stringify(data),
	dataType: "json",
	contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
});

I hate that work-around where you specify all sorts of stuff that you don’t really want to specify (like dataType, contentType, etc…). This is all required because the friendlier $.post(...) will send your data in a Form encoded way.