how to assign variable value as variable name in a hash?

Question

I need to define a hash for posting some ajax data using jQuery. The hash will look something like:

var setname = \'set_1\';
elements = { set_1: {\'beer\',\'         


        

Answer 1

You have to understand that there's really no such thing as "JSON notation" in Javascript - it's native Javascript notation that we're talking about. What jQuery wants is a Javascript value for the POST data, not necessarily a Javascript object constant.

Thus, your code will prepare your POST data like this:

var elements = {};
elements[setName] = { /* something */ };
elements[somethingElse] = { /* something else */ };

and so on. When you're ready to do the POST, you'd just use "elements":

$.post(url, elements, function() { /* callback code */ });