JavaScript/jQuery array parsing

Question

I was looking for a picklist template in JavaScript and came across this code.

Which has the following code to parse through a from what I am assuming is a jQuery object array.

     var val = {
        01: {id: 01, text: 'test2'},
        02: {id: 02, text: 'test3'},
        03: {id: 03, text: 'test2'},
     };

     var pick = $("#pickList").pickList({data: val});

     $("#getSelected").click(function () {
        console.log(pick.getValues(val));
        alert(pick.getValues());
     });

Where the #pickList is a function which populates data onto a form.

Now when I run this using the button "#getSelected" , I can see in Chrome developer options that it is fetching the data from the form but in some sort of an key value pair.

Now, When I try to alert(pick.getValues());

I get an alert with [object Object] and not the value inside the array.

Can someone help me to know how to parse the array so that I can get the value of the "text"

Below is a screenshot of the Chrome dev console. Screenshot of chrome dev options

Instead of alert(pick.getValues()); use console.log(pick.getValues()); and see the console output in your dev console. — David R
– David R, Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 11:50
@DavidR Console.log works actually, how do I post it to the server? I was thinking if I can get it to alert then I can move the value to a variable and then post that to the server. — Shobin Parameswaran
– Shobin Parameswaran, Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 11:52
@DavidR Wow that works. Can you post that as an answer so that i can mark it as solved? THank you so much — Shobin Parameswaran
– Shobin Parameswaran, Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 11:54

David R · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-18 12:02:11Z

1

You need to use JSON.stringify inside your alert statement like this,

alert(JSON.stringify(pick.getValues()));

Hope this helps!

edited Oct 18, 2016 at 12:02

answered Oct 18, 2016 at 11:55

David R

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