Question

I wanted to converted the javascript object into string so that it should work in all the browsers

I used object.toSource(); to convert it to string. It work’s fine only in firefox.

In IE it shows

Object doesn’t support this property or method

I replaced it with JSON.stringify(object); this time i get an error as “Circular reference in value argument not supported”. I’m not sure what the problem is.

I got this output when I use object.toSource();

The jJSON data is

({test:[“456”, “Test event”, (new Date(1332131400000)), (new
Date(1332135000000)), “0”, 0, 0, “16”, 1, “Some place”,
“……………

I need to convert this JSON data into string…….

Can any one help me on this?
Thanks

Answer 1

The toSource() method is not supported in IE; JavaScript implementations of browsers are known to be somewhat different, this is one of those cases.

JSON can’t represent circular references. This is an example of a circular reference:

var a = {}, b = {a: a};
a.b = b;
// Now I can go a.b.a.b.a.b.a.b... forever; there's no way to represent this in JSON

You should probably implement your own serialization method, possibly by overriding toString(). If you want to stick with JSON, you’ll have to remove the circular reference.