Complex Javascript objects to JSON Objects

Question

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2891476/converting-html-tag-object-to-json-object

Hi, Is there is any Javascript API that converts complex Javascript Objects To JSON String???

Answer 1

I don't think what you're looking for a an API per se. That would be a something like a service where you send data and receive back something else.

What you want is called a serializer. It turns a javascript object into a string of text representing the object-literal. For example:

var foo = {};
foo[bar] = "baz";

//do serializing to get a -string- that looks like this:

{bar: "baz"}

That way when a service receives this JSON information, if it uses javascript, it's already in a format where it can be read directly into memory without conversion. Here is an example javascript serializer:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.script.serialization.javascriptserializer.aspx