js ajax send post data 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: javascript ajax post send an object

function postAjax(url, data, success) {    var params = typeof data == 'string' ? data : Object.keys(data).map(            function(k){ return encodeURIComponent(k) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(data[k]) }        ).join('&');
    var xhr = window.XMLHttpRequest ? new XMLHttpRequest() : new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");    xhr.open('POST', url);    xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {        if (xhr.readyState>3 && xhr.status==200) { success(xhr.responseText); }    };    xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');    xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');    xhr.send(params);    return xhr;}
// example requestpostAjax('http://foo.bar/', 'p1=1&p2=Hello+World', function(data){ console.log(data); });
// example request with data objectpostAjax('http://foo.bar/', { p1: 1, p2: 'Hello World' }, function(data){ console.log(data); });