jquery calling api get post methods code example

Example 1: jquery ajax post example

var formData = {name:"John", surname:"Doe", age:"31"}; //Array 

$.ajax({
    url : "https://example.com/rest/getData", // Url of backend (can be python, php, etc..)
    type: "POST", // data type (can be get, post, put, delete)
    data : formData, // data in json format
  	async : false, // enable or disable async (optional, but suggested as false if you need to populate data afterwards)
    success: function(response, textStatus, jqXHR) {
    	console.log(response);
    },
    error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
		console.log(jqXHR);
      	console.log(textStatus);
      	console.log(errorThrown);
    }
});

Example 2: $post in jquery

$(function(){
    $('#myForm').on('submit', function(e){
      e.preventDefault();
      $.post('http://www.somewhere.com/path/to/post', 
         $('#myForm').serialize(), 
         function(data, status, xhr){
           // do something here with response;
         });
    });
});