How to generate a JSON object dynamically with duplicate keys?

Question

I know this will sound impossible but my boss told me I MUST send a JSON over an AJAX post call with jQuery that MUST HAVE DUPLICATE KEYS. the problem is that if I write som

Answer 1

If you can't change the source at the source, then change the source into something you can at least work with...

Parse the JSON into an Array of key value pairs (not into an object of key/value pairs).

You could do this easily if you have access to the JSON string, simply replace all "," with "},{" and wrap the result in "[" and "]".

You now have a valid JSON array of key/value pairs that is javascript legal.