ajax call regarding posting

From the code excerpt at the bottom, added for context (from a WP course I’m doing) I’ve extracted a section below I’m confused about. We’re sending the object ourNewPost to ajax. To get the post immediately from draft to published 'status': 'publish' has been added. But how on earth is ajax interpreting the object as I can’t find anywhere which defines how the object’s properties are to be defined/named and what other properties I can use??

var ourNewPost = {
            'title': $(".new-note-title").val(),
            'content': $(".new-note-body").val(),
            'status': 'publish'
        }

    createNote(myEventInfo){
    // Here we need to fetch the actual data that's in the form fields for this note
        var ourNewPost = {
            'title': $(".new-note-title").val(),
            'content': $(".new-note-body").val(),
            'status': 'publish'
        }
    // instead of using $.getJSON we use this...
        $.ajax({
            // Here we pass the session ID, which authenticates the logged in user
            beforeSend: (xhr)=>{
                xhr.setRequestHeader('X-WP-Nonce', mySite.nonce);
            },
    // We access thisNote's (the li element) data attribute 'data-id'. BTW don't use 'data-id' use 'id'
            url: mySite.domain + '/wp-json/wp/v2/note/',
            type: 'POST',
            data: ourNewPost,
            // If it's successful then return to read only
            success: (response)=>{
                console.log("Congrats");
                // log the WP server response
                console.log(response);
                $(".new-note-title, .new-note-body").val('');
                $('<li>Imagine real data here</li>').prependTo("#my-notes").hide().slideDown();
            },
            // What if it fails
            error: (response)=>{
                console.log("It's Broken!!!");
                // log the WP server response
                console.log(response);
            }
        })
    }    

• This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by GusGF.