#88 Infinite recursion when sending Dictionary on Ajax request per POST

Originally at 2011-10-26T21:30:23Z by Sebastian Nozzi closed at 2011-11-02T09:59:16Z

Sending a Dictionary as data per Ajax-POST using JQuery causes an infinite recursion.

My debugging pointed out that JQuery recurses infinitely when trying to somehow convert the dictionary (postData). The same happens when postData is sent an #asJSONObject message.

If postData is a String it works, of course.

Code below:

postData := #{  'filePath' -> 'NameOfCategory.js'.
            'contents' -> '...GeneratedContentsOfCategory...' }.
options := #{
        'type' -> 'POST'.
        'data' -> postData.
        'error' -> [window alert: 'Commit of JS failed!']
    }. 
jQuery 
    ajax: 'somePhpPage.php'
    options: options.