I'm creating a multi-dimensional dictionary collection during runtime. How can I retrieve the native JSON structure (in a string) after the dictionary is build?
dojox.collections.Dictionary: retrieve JSON string
Submitted by infopractica on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 13:51.
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You can recreate it using an Iterator.
The collections ctors deliberately mask/hide the initial data used to create the collections themselves; this was by design. If you are looking for some way of dealing with a pure JSON structure, I'd suggest one of the data stores in DojoX.data, such as JSONPathStore.
Keep it simple.
I like the simplicity of the dictionary collection. Does it make sense to add methods to retrieve a native JSON structure or JavaScript array from a dictionary instance?
The array-based collections have a toArray method...
...but the key-value pair based ones do not. Probably best if you assembled it yourself using the Iterator, as I'm not convinced that adding that is a wise thing (though I understand why you might want it).
toArray, toJSON for all collections
Just to make it transparent and easy to use, please make toArray and toJSON for all collections.