How do I send post request with json body where the body only contains a string not a key value pair?

Question

Some developer who does not know proper json format is key value pair made the json body just a string so it looks like this: { "dog" }

rather than { "dog": "dog" }

I need to send the request from a javascript file and the body must be JSON. I have tried sending raw JSON with Ajax, fetch, Axios, and xmlHttp but they are all formatting it into key value pair. How should I send this request?

Answer 1

fetch(url, {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
  },
  body: '{ "dog" }'
})

This will send the string { "dog" } in the body, if that is what the endpoint you are trying to use expects. Just... don't call it JSON. It's as much a JSON as pudding is a hammer.