[javascript] Serialize JavaScript object into JSON string

I have this JavaScript prototype:

Utils.MyClass1 = function(id, member) {
this.id = id;
this.member = member;
}

and I create a new object:

var myobject = new MyClass1("5678999", "text");

If I do:

console.log(JSON.stringify(myobject));

the result is:

{"id":"5678999", "member":"text"}

but I need for the type of the objects to be included in the JSON string, like this:

"MyClass1": { "id":"5678999", "member":"text"} 

Is there a fast way to do this using a framework or something? Or do I need to implement a toJson() method in the class and do it manually?

You can use a named function on the constructor.

MyClass1 = function foo(id, member) {
    this.id = id;
    this.member = member;
}

var myobject = new MyClass1("5678999", "text");

console.log( myobject.constructor );

//function foo(id, member) {
//    this.id = id;
//    this.member = member;
//}

You could use a regex to parse out 'foo' from myobject.constructor and use that to get the name.

    function ArrayToObject( arr ) {
    var obj = {};
    for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; ++i){
        var name = arr[i].name;
        var value = arr[i].value;
        obj[name] = arr[i].value;
    }
    return obj;
    }

      var form_data = $('#my_form').serializeArray();
            form_data = ArrayToObject( form_data );
            form_data.action = event.target.id;
            form_data.target = event.target.dataset.event;
            console.log( form_data );
            $.post("/api/v1/control/", form_data, function( response ){
                console.log(response);
            }).done(function( response ) {
                $('#message_box').html('SUCCESS');
            })
            .fail(function(  ) { $('#message_box').html('FAIL'); })
            .always(function(  ) { /*$('#message_box').html('SUCCESS');*/ });

Well, the type of an element is not standardly serialized, so you should add it manually. For example

var myobject = new MyClass1("5678999", "text");
var toJSONobject = { objectType: myobject.constructor, objectProperties: myobject };
console.log(JSON.stringify(toJSONobject));

Good luck!

edit: changed typeof to the correct .constructor. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/constructor for more information on the constructor property for Objects.

This might be useful. http://nanodeath.github.com/HydrateJS/ https://github.com/nanodeath/HydrateJS

Use hydrate.stringify to serialize the object and hydrate.parse to deserialize.

I was having some issues using the above solutions with an "associative array" type object. These solutions seem to preserve the values, but they do not preserve the actual names of the objects that those values are associated with, which can cause some issues. So I put together the following functions which I am using instead:

function flattenAssocArr(object) {
  if(typeof object == "object") {
    var keys = [];
    keys[0] = "ASSOCARR";
    keys.push(...Object.keys(object));
    var outArr = [];
    outArr[0] = keys;
    for(var i = 1; i < keys.length; i++) {
        outArr[i] = flattenAssocArr(object[keys[i]])
    }
    return outArr;
  } else {
    return object;
  }
}

function expandAssocArr(object) {
    if(typeof object !== "object")
        return object;
    var keys = object[0];
    var newObj = new Object();
    if(keys[0] === "ASSOCARR") {
        for(var i = 1; i < keys.length; i++) {
            newObj[keys[i]] = expandAssocArr(object[i])
        }
    }
    return newObj;
}

Note that these can't be used with any arbitrary object -- basically it creates a new array, stores the keys as element 0, with the data following it. So if you try to load an array that isn't created with these functions having element 0 as a key list, the results might be...interesting :)

I'm using it like this:

var objAsString = JSON.stringify(flattenAssocArr(globalDataset));
var strAsObject = expandAssocArr(JSON.parse(objAsString));

Below is another way by which we can JSON data with JSON.stringify() function

var Utils = {};
Utils.MyClass1 = function (id, member) {
    this.id = id;
    this.member = member;
}
var myobject = { MyClass1: new Utils.MyClass1("5678999", "text") };
alert(JSON.stringify(myobject));

It's just JSON? You can stringify() JSON:

var obj = {
    cons: [[String, 'some', 'somemore']],
    func: function(param, param2){
        param2.some = 'bla';
    }
};

var text = JSON.stringify(obj);

And parse back to JSON again with parse():

var myVar = JSON.parse(text);

If you have functions in the object, use this to serialize:

function objToString(obj, ndeep) {
  switch(typeof obj){
    case "string": return '"'+obj+'"';
    case "function": return obj.name || obj.toString();
    case "object":
      var indent = Array(ndeep||1).join('\t'), isArray = Array.isArray(obj);
      return ('{['[+isArray] + Object.keys(obj).map(function(key){
           return '\n\t' + indent +(isArray?'': key + ': ' )+ objToString(obj[key], (ndeep||1)+1);
         }).join(',') + '\n' + indent + '}]'[+isArray]).replace(/[\s\t\n]+(?=(?:[^\'"]*[\'"][^\'"]*[\'"])*[^\'"]*$)/g,'');
    default: return obj.toString();
  }
}

Examples:

Serialize:

var text = objToString(obj); //To Serialize Object

Result:

"{cons:[[String,"some","somemore"]],func:function(param,param2){param2.some='bla';}}"

Deserialize:

Var myObj = eval('('+text+')');//To UnSerialize 

Result:

Object {cons: Array[1], func: function, spoof: function}