Incorrect serialization of url in Ajax request

[davidsd]

In the JQuery module, the JS object finally passed to JQuery is automatically logged to the console. When I call the ajax function from the JQuery module like so

main = ajax "/ajax/example" putStrLn (\_ _ _ -> return ())

then what shows up in the log is

Object {success: function, url: Fay$$Cons, error: function}

in more detail, the members of this object are:

error: function ($p1){
success: function ($p1){
url: Fay$$Cons {
  car: "/"
  cdr: Fay$$Cons {
    car: "a"
    cdr: Fay$$Cons {
      car: "j"
      cdr: Fay$$Cons {
        ...

And the result is that the actual url in the ajax request is http://my.domain.com/[object Object]. It looks like what's happening is that the url isn't being correctly serialized from a Fay list back to a JS string.

[bergmark]

I noticed this as well. I think the problem is that String is only serialized to a js string if the ffi parameter type is explicit as String. Here we have a record that contains Defined String fields instead. So we can solve by...

• having Fay always serialize strings into js strings (would be a partial function...)
• hard coding the ajax queries (then we lose a lot of flexibility)

or preferably

• wait for fay-text

[chrisdone]

I'd look at the JS output with -p and see why it's not serializing.

[bergmark]

oh, also #244

[bergmark]

I'll close this in favor of that ticket