Question

I am using the web kit browsers local database to temporarily store some data and when I want to access it I create an object

function patientSelectHandler(transaction, results) {
        var row = results.rows.item(0);
        var patient = new Object();

        patient.name = row['name']
        patient.dob = row['dob']
        patient.gender = row['gender']
}

Is there a way to access this object from code behind, without having to populate textfields/labels/dropdowns and then get the values from there?

example as it is now:

function patientSelectHandler(transaction, results) {
        var row = results.rows.item(0);
        var patient = new Object();

        patient.name = row['name']
        patient.dob = row['dob']
        patient.gender = row['gender']


        $('#txtPatientName').val(patient.name);
        $('#txtDOB').val(patient.dob);
    $('#ddlGender').val(patient.gender);
}

edit:

Updating my example a bit:

    var patientString = JSON.stringify(patient);
    var inputField = $("<input type='text' name='hiddenField" + i + "' id='hiddenField" + i + "'></input>");
    $('#Patients').append(inputField);
    $('#hiddenField' + i).val(patientString);

and then a loop in the code behind

            for (int i = 0; i <= count; i++)
            {
                string n = String.Format("{0}", Request.Form["hiddenField" + i]).ToString();
                JObject o = JObject.Parse(n);
                string name = (string)o["name"];
//now I can get all values into variables and use them when calling the web service
}

Answer 1

You don’t need to set it to textfields for any reason…

I would probably do something like

var patientString = JSON.stringify(patient);
$('#myHiddenInput').val(patientString);

Otherwise, depending on the flow of your application, you can post that object in string form to the server using AJAX.

Then, you will have to use a method to parse that string back into object formation. I’m not to familiar with c# but i’m sure it would be easy to find or write such a method.