Question

I currently am dealing with a Web Service that is returning an array of strings to the client. From here I would like to take this array of strings and convert it into an object that gives each string a name so to reference it later.

So start with this:

var result = ["test", "hello", "goodbye"];

And I would like to end up with this:

var final = [{'value': "test"}, {'value': "hello"}, {'value': "goodbye"}];

I use jquery. Is there a easy to accomplish this?

Answer 1

var final = $.map(result, function(val) {
    return { value: val };
});

Alternatively you can use the ES5 alternative

var final result.map(function(val) {
    return { value: val };
});

Or a simple iteration.

var final = [];
for (var i = 0, ii = result.length; i < ii; i++) {
    final.push({ value: result[i] });
}