I'm using jQuery.
serialize seems not fit for this job.
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2Serialize to what? XML, JSON, CSV, etc..gn22– gn222009-12-08 04:12:57 +00:00Commented Dec 8, 2009 at 4:12
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1From an arbitrary object to stringuser198729– user1987292009-12-08 04:17:22 +00:00Commented Dec 8, 2009 at 4:17
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The only serialisation on ‘arbitrary objects’ is toString as described by thenduks. This is a convenience serialisation for display purposes only (and even then very often generates useless string representations like [object Object]).
Can this process be reversed?
Not reliably, no.
If the datatypes you need to serialise are just the JS builtins like Array, String, Number and unprototyped Object being used as a transparent mapping, you can use JSON. Call JSON.stringify(obj) to serialise, JSON.parse(str) to re-parse. Use json2 or some other library with JSON features to support old browsers that don't have native JSON.
But ‘arbitrary objects’? No, can't be done (not in most other languages either).
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user198729
I don't think it can't be done in most languages,because in PHP I can simply do it by $str = serialize($object); and $object = unserialize($str);
bobince
Not for ‘arbitrary objects’. There are unserialisable objects even for PHP.
user198729
OK,but in my case I just need it to work with multiple dimensional array.
user198729
But I'm already using jQuery,you mean I should pull another library?
bobince
Yes. It's a curious omission that jQuery has no JSON serialiser. (It can of course parse JSON just using
eval.) See eg. stackoverflow.com/questions/191881/…It's not clear what you're looking for, if you just want the array represented as a string then you can call toString, which most types in javascript have defined:
>>> [1,2,3].toString()
"1,2,3"
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user198729
Can this process be reversed?
user198729
The array can be multi-dimensional.
bobince
No.
['x,y', 'z'] ⇒ x,y,z ⇒ ['x', 'y', 'z'].
