Javascript data structure

Question

I have a script that I'm working on, this script reads a zip file and extracts the contents of the files inside the zip. What I'm trying to do is send a request to my server in the following format:

file0name,contentfile0;file1name,contentfile1;file2name,contentfile2

Can someone tell me what type of data structure I should use? Is it a list or a JSON object?

https://jsfiddle.net/ker1w6pb/6/

Can you share some more details? I'm interested how you're going to use JavaScript to "read...and extract the contents" of a zip file in client side JavaScript? — War10ck
– War10ck, Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 16:20
What you send to the server is a string. How you build and parse it is up to you. — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 16:23
I have no idea what you are asking. Since you say "send a request to my server", presumably you are talking about a client-side script, but JS on the client side cannot read a zip or any other file. How you send what to the server is completely up to you. For instance, you could send it as a form-like POST. — user663031
– user663031, Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 16:25

Merott · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-24 16:33:29Z

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Assuming you convert your content into a string (which sounds odd to me), you can just POST a JSON data object containing your string:

var postData = [{
  filename: 'file0',
  content: 'content0'
}, {
  filename: 'file1',
  content: 'content1'
}, {
  filename: 'file2',
  content: 'content2'
}];

var postString = postData.reduce(function(previous, current) {
  return previous + current.filename + ',' + current.content + ';';
}, '');

//post(uri, {data: postString});
document.write(postString);

answered Nov 24, 2015 at 16:33

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