I thought Rails 3.2 ActionController automatically converts JSON params hashes...

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Hey,

I was thinking I’d have my controllers do double-duty: the same actions handling json and html requests differentially. For this, it’s useful that Rails 3.2 automatic params hash conversion from json work (as described here in the Rails docs). (I’m using ruby 1.9.2.) But it doesn’t, that is, it seems I am required to decode the json params explicitly. Why?

Here’s an example of a post from my dev log…

Processing by MarketlessPriceRequestsController#create as JSON

Parameters: {“utf8”=>“✓”, “price_request”=>"{"prices_are_public_to_pricemakers":false, …

Here’s params[:price_request] in the controller

{“prices_are_public_to_pricemakers”:false, …

But it looks like I need to decode the json explicity to get to the accepted form…

{“prices_are_public_to_pricemakers”=>false, …

Can I configure my controllers to help me avoid the explicit decode step?

Thanks,

G

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Is the thing making the requests setting the content type to application/json ?

Fred

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+1 to Fred’s suggestion: make sure the parameters are being sent as application/json.

I’d also recommend double-checking the code that is sending the data - what you’re getting looks like what would result if you did something like this:

(in Rails)

render :json => { :price_request => @price_request.to_json }

(in JS)

$.post(‘/some_url’, { price_request: JSON.generate(some_data_object) })

In both cases, there’s two conversions to JSON going on - one explicit, then the other implicit in the transmission (either the render or the post).

–Matt Jones