method

xml_http_request

v1.2.6 - Show latest stable - Class: ActionController::Integration::Session

xml_http_request(request_method, path, parameters = nil, headers = nil)

public

Performs an XMLHttpRequest request with the given parameters, mirroring a request from the Prototype library.

The request_method is :get, :post, :put, :delete or :head; the parameters are nil, a hash, or a url-encoded or multipart string; the headers are a hash. Keys are automatically upcased and prefixed with ‘HTTP_' if not already.

This method used to omit the request_method parameter, assuming it was :post. This was deprecated in Rails 1.2.4. Always pass the request method as the first argument.

# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/integration.rb, line 186
      def xml_http_request(request_method, path, parameters = nil, headers = nil)
        unless request_method.is_a?(Symbol)
          ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn 'xml_http_request now takes the request_method (:get, :post, etc.) as the first argument. It used to assume :post, so add the :post argument to your existing method calls to silence this warning.'
          request_method, path, parameters, headers = :post, request_method, path, parameters
        end

        headers ||= {}
        headers['X-Requested-With'] = 'XMLHttpRequest'
        headers['Accept'] = 'text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*'

        process(request_method, path, parameters, headers)
      end

xml_http_request

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