Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Serialize / deserialize an associative array

[Ryan Gahl]

As long as the array/object has not been touched by the prototype code (and thus would add properties to the object), the below should put you on the right track. I'm assuming you meant associative arrays as in "_javascript_ treats all objects as associative arrays" and not the Array type object (which in that case you'd just use a prototype .each() iterator to do this)...

var obj = {firstKey: firstVal, secondKey: secondVal};
var objStr = '';
for (var p in obj)
{

objStr = objStr + p + ":" + obj[p] + "|";

}

// ...now strip the last "|" symbol and you have your object as a string delimited by : for name/value pairs and | between the sets of values.

prototype's .flatten() might help also but I haven't used it too much.

On 4/28/06, SPENDLOVE, Matt, GBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Perhaps I missed something but I don't see an easy way to do this ?

Basically just wanna hold some ui state in a cookie.

Did I miss something obvious ?

Best

Matt

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