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James Wilson
James Wilson

Reputation: 5150

Jquery object vs string problems

I deleted my old post as it contained a lot of spam. And I created a jsfiddle to reproduce the issue I am having.

http://jsfiddle.net/mLxSP/

console.clear();
var args = '{ action: downline }';

showObject(args);

showObject({ action: 'downline' });


function showObject(args) {

    console.log(args);        
}

How do I pass args as an object? I'm currently building args into a string dynamically and need to pass it as an object for the function to work correctly.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 91

Answers (5)

jeewiya
jeewiya

Reputation: 571

Jquery "parseJSON" will help you.

$(document).ready(function() {

    var args = $.parseJSON('{"action": "downline" }');
    showObject(args);
    showObject({
        action: 'downline'
    });

    function showObject(args) {
        console.log(args);
    }
});​

Upvotes: 0

Kevin B
Kevin B

Reputation: 95023

If you generated it as valid JSON, you could parse the string as json and display that.

console.clear();
var args = '{ "action": "downline" }';

showObject($.parseJSON(args));

showObject({ action: 'downline' });


function showObject(args) {

    console.log(args);        
}

Upvotes: 0

Naftali
Naftali

Reputation: 146302

I am not sure what the issue is.

Your second way is how you pass an object to a function.

This fiddle shows the log: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/mLxSP/1/

Upvotes: 0

devstruck
devstruck

Reputation: 1507

It is not your passing, but rather your declaration that is the problem. Define args as 

var args = { action: 'downline' };

Upvotes: 2

Frenchi In LA
Frenchi In LA

Reputation: 3169

args.action, or args[action] will show downline

you can make also your object like: args = {}; args.action = 'downline'; etc

What's the problem?

Upvotes: 0

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