pass array as parameter in an axios request

Question

I need to make a request through axios, in which I want to pass as an array an array of this type [1,2,3,4]. I need this data to make a selection query from my backend, my question is: should I use a GET or POST request and what would be the correct way to pass this array?

Solution

You can POST it as json data

let data=[1,2,3,4,5];
let json=JSON.stringify(data);
let post_data={json_data:json}
axios.post('/url',post_data)

• use JSON.stringify to convert it to json string
• Use POST method to send data to server
• Use json_decode to convert json back to array on server side

On laravel side you can do like below

$jsonArray = json_decode($response,true);

Comments

[FeRcHo]

thanks for answering, apparently everything is fine with my javascript code, but I have problems receiving the array in my laravel driver, apparently this did not work $ jsonArray = json_decode ($ response, true).

[Kevin Foster]

For best practices, the answer would depend on the purpose of your request, and you shouldn't use get/post interchangeably. Get requests should be idempotent, while post requests are not: restapitutorial.com/lessons/idempotency.html