Serializing to JSON in jQuery [duplicate]

Answer 1

One thing that the above solutions don't take into account is if you have an array of inputs but only one value was supplied.

For instance, if the back end expects an array of People, but in this particular case, you are just dealing with a single person. Then doing:

Then with the previous solutions, it would just map to something like:

{
    "People" : "Joe"
}

But it should really map to

{
    "People" : [ "Joe" ]
}

To fix that, the input should look like:

And you would use the following function (based off of other solutions, but extended a bit)

$.fn.serializeObject = function() {
var o = {};
var a = this.serializeArray();
$.each(a, function() {
    if (this.name.substr(-2) == "[]"){
        this.name = this.name.substr(0, this.name.length - 2);
        o[this.name] = [];
    }

    if (o[this.name]) {
        if (!o[this.name].push) {
            o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
        }
        o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
    } else {
        o[this.name] = this.value || '';
    }
});
return o;
};