Appending to an object

Question

I have an object that holds alerts and some information about them:

var alerts = { 
    1: { app: \'helloworld\', message: \'message\' },
    2: { app: \'hel         


        

Answer 1

jQuery $.extend(obj1, obj2) would merge 2 objects for you, but you should really be using an array.

var alertsObj = {
    1: {app:'helloworld','message'},
    2: {app:'helloagain',message:'another message'}
};

var alertArr = [
    {app:'helloworld','message'},
    {app:'helloagain',message:'another message'}
];

var newAlert = {app:'new',message:'message'};

$.extend(alertsObj, newAlert);
alertArr.push(newAlert);