JQgrid - escape ':' in searchoptions (value part)

Question

How to set the values for filter is explained here link text. I have two requirements.
1. the default value needs to be empty. I expect, if defaultValue is not set, the

Answer 1

I had the same issue and the only option was to use searchoptions object. However, I had to programmatically build the list so I couldn't use define the objects.

Therefore, I decided to use build the list as an JSON string and then parse it, as shown below:

  searchoptions: {
    value: $.parseJSON("{" + searchSelectFormat.join(",") + "}"),
    sopt: ['eq']
  }

where searchSelectFormat is in the format of

'"' + data + '":"' + data + '"';

'"' + item+ '":"' + item+ '"'