Json Differences between angularjs and play framework

Question

When i post from angularjs

{name:"John", age: 26}

i get BadRequest, however if is manually post

{"name":"John", "age": 26}

it works

in the Scala/Play side its the simple case class with Json formatting

import play.api.libs.json._
import play.api.libs.functional.syntax._

case class Customer(name: String, age: Int)

implicit val customerFormat = Json.format[Customer]

the Action is a simple one

def save = Action(parse.json) { request =>
  request.body.validate[Customer].map { customer =>
      myDAO.saveCustomer(customer)
      Ok(toJson(customer))
    }.getOrElse(BadRequest("invalid json"))
  })
}

i guess the answer is either make angularjs quote the keys, or make play to ignore the the lack of keys, i'll need help on how do i do either of it, or am i missing something

How do you build and send the JSON-like data from AngularJS? Do you build it manually or use a library? — Jacek Laskowski
– Jacek Laskowski, Commented Sep 24, 2014 at 21:14

acjay · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-14 14:26:10Z

2

In valid JSON, object keys must always be quoted. Try typing the object literal without the quotes into a JSON validator for confirmation.

It's important to note that there are differences between plain old Javascript object literals (POJOs) and JSON, with the JSON format being stricter. JSON is a string data type that happens to be valid Javascript. Technically, you obtain JSON data from Javascript code by stringifying a POJO:

JSON.stringify({name:"John", age: 26})
// "{"name":"John","age":26}"

edited Sep 14, 2014 at 14:26

answered Sep 14, 2014 at 3:16

acjay

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