title: Post array of strings to web API method
body: <p><strong>this is my client side ajax call:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>    var list = ["a", "b", "c", "d"];
  
      var jsonText = { data: list };
  
      $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "/api/scheduledItemPriceStatus/updateStatusToDelete",
          data: jsonText,
          dataType: "json",
          traditional: true,
          success: function() { alert("it worked!"); },
          failure: function() { alert("not working..."); }
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>this is chrome network header:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>Request URL:http://localhost:2538/api/scheduledItemPriceStatus/updateStatusToDelete
  
  Request Method:POST
  
  Request Headersview source
  
  Accept:application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
  
  Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
  
  Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
  
  Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
  
  Connection:keep-alive
  
  Content-Length:27
  
  Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
  
  Host:localhost:2538
  
  Origin:http://localhost:2538
  
  Referer:http://localhost:2538/Pricing/ScheduledItemPrices
  
  User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11
  
  X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Form Dataview URL encoded</p>
  
  <pre><code>data:a
  data:b
  data:c
  data:d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>this is my webapi controller method:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>public HttpResponseMessage UpdateStatusToDelete(string[] data)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>result:</strong></p>
  
  <p>when I debug, the data parameter in UpdateStatusToDelete returns <code>{string[0]}</code> instead of data:a
  data:b
  data:c
  data:d</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? Any help is really appreciated.</p>