Allow ajax.method as alias for ajax.type

[david71rj]

Suggestion to 1.9.

Can be better to rename the ajax.type to ajax.method? I generally read METHOD POST and not TYPE POST. ajax.dataType can be renamed to ajax.type, like TYPE SCRIPT, TYPE HTML, TYPE TEXT, ...

[Rick Waldron]

While it's possible to add an alias, I doubt we'll be able to complete "rename" the property - it would break everything that used $.ajax

[dmethvin]

Agreed, I'd be good with an alias (and have expected it to be method in the past) but we can't just rename it.

[dmethvin]

Bulk change from enhancement to feature.

[jaubourg]

The good approach is to keep using type internally but accept and consider method in the first place in the main ajax function:

options.type = options.method || options.type;

That way we can keep type internally and not break existing prefilters and transports.

[timmywil]

It doesn't sound like this will get done.

[timmywil]

Sorry, I'm +1 on aliasing type and method, just not switching type and dataType

[david71rj]

Yeah, dataType is inviable just now, to not cause breaks.

[farmdawgnation]

I've opened a pull request for this on Github. ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1007

[Matt Farmer]

Alias options.method to options.type. Fixes #12004.

Changeset: 081c4efcf7736433d2fb5702e7bd4f8616426af2