form-serializer

ender add form-serializer

var serializeForm = require('form-serializer').serializeFormObject
  , toNativeTypes = true
  , obj
  ;

obj = serializeForm('form#save-data', toNativeTypes);
// `true` means "try to convert to native types"
// Supported Types: Numbers, Boolean, and null

console.log(obj);

API

Okay, so serialize is a terrible prefix. jQuery talked fancy to me. I got confused!

serializeing a form, in this case, means to go from DoM to JavaScript, not from Object to Text.

An optional second parameter will cause the values to be typecasted. Supported Types: Numbers, Boolean, and null.

• serializeFormObject

  • does not allow duplicate keys - [name=foobar]

  • does turn [name="waldo[]"] into an array

        {
            "foobar": "baz"
          , "grault": "garply"
          , "waldo": ["qux", "quux"]
        }
    

• serializeFormArray

  • true representation of the form

        [
            {
                "name": "foobar"
              , "value": "baz"
            }
          , {
                "name": "waldo[]"
              , "value": "qux"
            }
        ]
    

License

Copyright AJ ONeal 2011

This project is available under the MIT and Apache v2 licenses.

• http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
• http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html