iron-ajax not posting data

[ahumblenerd]

<dom-module id="my-new-app">
<style>
</style>
<template>

  <iron-ajax
      id="ajax"
      handle-as="json"
      content-type="application/json"
      method="POST"
      body={"user":2,"dob":"2015-06-10","jobs":1,"skills":[],"about":"cool"}
      on-response="hresponse"
      debounce-duration="3000">
  </iron-ajax>
  <button on-click="setajax">Click me</button>
</template>
<script>
Polymer({
  is: "my-new-app",
  setajax: function () {

      this.$.ajax.url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/";
    this.$.ajax.generateRequest();
  },
  hresponse: function(request) {
    console.log(request.detail.response);
    console.log(this.$.ajax.lastResponse);
    console.log(this.$.ajax.params);
  }
});
</script>
</dom-module>

This does not post data correctly to the server. Also when i put in a console.log inside the iron-ajax.html file i found out that contentType was still set as application/x-www-form-urlencoded . The documentation says we can specifiy contentype by specifiying contentType = {String}.

[adalinesimonian]

The body attribute should be wrapped in quotes:

<iron-ajax
  body='{"user":2,"dob":"2015-06-10","jobs":1,"skills":[],"about":"cool"}'
  ...

Other than that, I can't seem to replicate the behaviour you're seeing:

Mind providing more details?

[ahumblenerd]

It works fine when i try to post it to a normal service . But when i try my own backend based on Django Rest Framework it throws out errors . And when i looked into it , Django was receiving application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead of application/json.So I went inside iron-ajax/iron-ajax.html and typed in a console.log() to print all parameters and it was showing that the encoding was not changing even when I was explicitly specifying .

[kevinpschaaf]

This issue tracker is for the core Polymer library, not elements created with Polymer. We'll get this moved to the right tracker for iron-ajax.

[tjsavage]

This issue was moved to PolymerElements/iron-ajax#66