New to ASP/MVC: ajax submit to WebAPI endpoint
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I'm not sure of the best way to accomplish my goal. Looking for insight. I'm familiar with WebAPI services consumed through WPF and Silverlight but this is my first run at ASP and MVC. I am building a site to verify contents of a shipment against an electronic manifest (EDI 856). I have a page that displays the shipping data and I need the users to scan each item barcode in the container. I would then like to pass that barcode to a service, verify the item belongs in that shipment and then update the page to show as much. My plan was to have a single text box into which the user could scan/type the barcode and then submit that data to a WebAPI service which would verify the information and then probably use SignalR to send a message back to the page and update a grid with the item data. If this is a decent way to go, I'm just not quite sure how to use ajax to call the WebAPI endpoint and provide the data I need.