ajax POST中的键和值都被转义

Question

I am trying to access some params from an ajax post in Rails. But my params are all escaped. I am not quite whether this is the best way to go about it. If I inspect the params[:event] vairable in Rails I end up receiving it looks something like this

{\"title\":\"None\",\"startdate\":\"2014-01-23\",\"enddate\":\"None\",\"description\":\" Description\"}

I am sure I can use this data if I really wanted to. But is this really the best way to receive data on my backend?

For reference, ajax

$.ajax ({
    type: 'POST',
    url: '/api/calendar',
    dataType: 'json',
    data: {'event': JSON.stringify(this)},

    success: function(response) {
        console.log('Success ', response);
    }

});

Typical data

event:{
    "title":"None",
    "startdate":"2014-01-23",
    "enddate":"None",
    "description":"Description"
}

Two questions:

1. Is this the only way rails would accept data?

2. If this is the safest way to post data to my backend what would be the easiest way of accessing the data?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you

Answer 1

The JSON.stringify was the culprit. I was using a backbone model and switched to .toJSON instead.