Serialize form data to JSON [duplicate]

I want to do some pre-server-validation of a form in a Backbone.js model. To do this I need to get the user input from a form into usable data. I found three methods to do this:

var input = $("#inputId").val();
var input = $("form.login").serialize();
var input = $("form.login").serializeArray();

Unfortunately, none of the provide a good reabable and developable JSON object which I require. I already looked through several questions on Stack Overflow, but I found only some extra libraries.

Doesn't Underscore.js, the current jQuery or Backbone.js provide a helper method?

I can't imagine there is no request for such a function.

HTML

<form class="login">
    <label for="_user_name">username:</label>
    <input type="text" id="_user_name" name="user[name]" value="dev.pus" />
    <label for="_user_pass">password:</label>
    <input type="password" id="_user_pass" name="user[pass]" value="1234" />
    <button type="submit">login</button>
</form>

JavaScript

var formData = $("form.login").serializeObject();
console.log(formData);

Outputs

{
    "name": "dev.pus",
    "pass": "1234"
}

Backbone.js model

var user = new User(formData);
user.save();

Here's a function for this use case:

function getFormData($form){
    var unindexed_array = $form.serializeArray();
    var indexed_array = {};

    $.map(unindexed_array, function(n, i){
        indexed_array[n['name']] = n['value'];
    });

    return indexed_array;
}

Usage:

var $form = $("#form_data");
var data = getFormData($form);

You can do this:

function onSubmit( form ){
  var data = JSON.stringify( $(form).serializeArray() ); //  <-----------

  console.log( data );
  return false; //don't submit
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<form onsubmit='return onSubmit(this)'>
  <input name='user' placeholder='user'><br>
  <input name='password' type='password' placeholder='password'><br>
  <button type='submit'>Try</button>
</form>

see this: http://www.json.org/js.html

The below code should help you out. :)

 //The function is based on http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/serialize-form-to-json/
 <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>

<script>
    $.fn.serializeObject = function() {
        var o = {};
        var a = this.serializeArray();
        $.each(a, function() {
            if (o[this.name]) {
                if (!o[this.name].push) {
                    o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
                }
                o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
            } else {
                o[this.name] = this.value || '';
            }
        });
        return o;
    };

    $(function() {
        $('form.login').on('submit', function(e) {
          e.preventDefault();

          var formData = $(this).serializeObject();
          console.log(formData);
          $('.datahere').html(formData);
        });
    });
</script>

Use:

var config = {};
jQuery(form).serializeArray().map(function(item) {
    if ( config[item.name] ) {
        if ( typeof(config[item.name]) === "string" ) {
            config[item.name] = [config[item.name]];
        }
        config[item.name].push(item.value);
    } else {
        config[item.name] = item.value;
    }
});

I know this doesn't meet the helper function requirement, but the way I've done this is using jQuery's $.each() method

var loginForm = $('.login').serializeArray();
var loginFormObject = {};
$.each(loginForm,
    function(i, v) {
        loginFormObject[v.name] = v.value;
    });

Then I can pass loginFormObject to my backend, or you could create a userobject and save() it in backbone as well.

Serialize form data to JSON [duplicate]

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