AngularJS $http.post removing attributes

Question

When I do a $http.post in AngularJS with a object like:

{  name: \'232\', id: \'3434\', $type: \"API.Models.Fields.ValuesList, API\" }
         


        

Answer 1

Yes, Angular strips dollar-prefixed properties when sending data over $http service.

$http service serialises objects to JSON string using angular.toJson method. This method strips properties with leading $ characters because angular uses this notation internally (e.g. instance method $save is available on all ngResource objects).

Quick workaround is to stringify the data manually (using JSON.stringify), before passing it on to $http:

$http.post('/api/path', JSON.stringify(model));