problem with apostrophe in ajax webservice call

Question

I'm calling a webservice using jQuery with .ajax

Here are the data parameters for the call:

  var parameters = "{'Titre':'" + Titre + "','Description':'" + Description + "','Contact':'" + Contact + "','VilleId':'" + VilleId + "','QuartierId':'" + QuartierId + "','UserId':'" + UserId + "'}";

It works fine. But when parameters Description or Titre contain the ' character , no call!!!

Does anyone have an idea how can i make it work even with apostrophe character in Titre and/or Description?

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1470768/how-to-escape-apostrophe-or-quotes-on-a-jsp-used-by-javascript — Lance, Jan 28 '11 at 17:29

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:41

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I would use a json encoder. Douglas Crockford's JSON in JavaScript seems a good choice.

Then you just write

 var param = JSON.stringify({ 'Titre': Titre, 'Description': Description });

and let the master worry about the quoting.

answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:41

Tobi Oetiker

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:34

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Try escaping the apostrophe:

    var parameters = "{
         'Titre':'" + Titre.replace(/'/g,"\'") + 
//                          ^
        "','Description':'" + Description + 
        "','Contact':'" + Contact + 
        "','VilleId':'" + VilleId + 
        "','QuartierId':'" + QuartierId + 
        "','UserId':'" + UserId + "'}";

answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:34

KooiInc

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you mean Titre.replace(/'/g,"\\'") – balint May 05 '12 at 14:39

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:29

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You probably need to encode the values to be safely passed in a URL.

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/URLEncode

answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:29

Arseny

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:45

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You can try escaping it:

var str = "asdfsd'asdfadf";
str = str.replace("'", "\'");

answered Jan 28 '11 at 17:45

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 03 '18 at 13:25

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Here's the way I escape that works for me currently:

var theString = "O'Kief blahblahblahblah";
theString = theString .replace("'", "\\'");
//Note the double \\

Doesn't break and saves as: O'Kief blahblahblahblah

answered Aug 03 '18 at 13:25

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problem with apostrophe in ajax webservice call

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