JavaScript developers tend to refer to the above data-structure as either an object or hash instead of a Dictionary.
Your syntax above is wrong as you are initializing the users object as null. I presume this is a typo, as the code should read:
// Initialize users as a new hash.
var users = {};
users["182982"] = "...";
To retrieve all the values from a hash, you need to iterate over it using a for loop:
function getValues (hash) {
var values = [];
for (var key in hash) {
// Ensure that the `key` is actually a member of the hash and not
// a member of the `prototype`.
// see: http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html#for%20statement
if (hash.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
values.push(key);
}
}
return values;
};
If you plan on doing a lot of work with data-structures in JavaScript then the underscore.js library is definitely worth a look. Underscore comes with a values method which will perform the above task for you:
var values = _.values(users);
I don't use Angular myself, but I'm pretty sure there will be a convenience method build in for iterating over a hash's values (ah, there we go, Artem Andreev provides the answer above :))