How to post an empty array (of ints) (jQuery -> MVC 3)

Question

Using jQuery I am posting an array of int to my MVC 3 application by putting the array in the data parameter like so: data: { myIntArray: myIntArray }

Answer 1

Just in case anyone lands on this question trying to resolve this...

This is a bug in MVC (that still exists in MVC 4 in 2019, duh):

• when you POST an empty form parameter into an action method that has an array-mapped variable or model - this results in an 1-element zero array { 0 }.

I found no other way than to deal with it on the back-end.

Here's another question discussing it: ASP.NET MVC Int Array parameter with empty array defaults to {0}