Submitting post information from AngularJS to Laravel REST API - angularjs

Question

I followed the following tutorial (https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/laravel-4-a-start-at-a-restful-api-updated--net-29785) to create a REST API with Laravel. Here we're creating a new Url which gets two inputs: a url and description and stores it to a database.
public function store()
{
$url = new Url;
$url->url = Request::get('url');
$url->description = Request::get('description');
$url->user_id = Auth::user()->id;
$url->save();
return Response::json(array(
'error' => false,
'urls' => $urls->toArray()),
200
);
}
In trying to teach myself AngularJS, I've been trying to connect this REST API with an AngularJS front end. Here's my form:
<form data-ng-controller="formController">
<p>Store a URL To Read Later:</p>
<div class="form-group">
<input class="form-control" type="text" placeholder="Enter URL here" data-ng- model="newurl" />
</div>
<p>Description:</p>
<div class="form-group">
<input class="form-control" type="text" placeholder="Enter a brief description" data-ng-model="newdescription" />
</div>
<div class="form-group text-right">
<button class="btn btn-success" data-ng-click="submitUrl()">Add To List</button>
</div>
</form>
The data-ng-click is calling the submitUrl function which I have defined in the FormController.
function formController($scope, $http) {
$scope.submitUrl = function() {
var data = { 'url': $scope.newurl, 'description': $scope.newdescription };
$http.post("http://readitlater.loc/api/v1/url/", data )
}
}
I guess I'm puzzled as to how to get the input data to the public function store() and what kind of data it's expecting. Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

I figured it out. Rewriting like this, solved the problem.
function formController($scope, $http) {
$scope.submitUrl = function() {
var data = { 'url': $scope.newurl, 'description': $scope.newdescription };
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: 'http://readitlater.loc/api/v1/url/',
headers: { 'Content-Type' : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: $.param(data)
});

Answer 2

AngularJS sends POST requests with application/json type & JSON body by default. I'm not familiar with Laravel, but looks like using Input instead of Request is what you need: http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/requests#basic-input