I’m using jQuery.
serialize seems not fit for this job.
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The only serialisation on ‘arbitrary objects’ is
toStringas described by thenduks. This is a convenience serialisation for display purposes only (and even then very often generates useless string representations like[object Object]).Not reliably, no.
If the datatypes you need to serialise are just the JS builtins like Array, String, Number and unprototyped Object being used as a transparent mapping, you can use JSON. Call
JSON.stringify(obj)to serialise,JSON.parse(str)to re-parse. Use json2 or some other library with JSON features to support old browsers that don’t have native JSON.But ‘arbitrary objects’? No, can’t be done (not in most other languages either).