trying to convert data from Domino Access Service to a JSON string via JSON.stringify

Question

I want to store the result from a call to a Domino Access Service (DAS) in a localStorage however when I try to convert the result object to a JSON string I get an error.

With DAS you get the result as an Array e.g.:

[
  {
      "@entryid":"1-CD90722966A36D758025725800726168",
      "@noteid":"16B46",

Does anyone know how I get rid of the square brackets or convert the Array quickly to a JSON object?

Here is a snippet of my code:

var REST = "./myREST.xsp/notesView"; 
$.getJSON(REST,function(data){
    if(localStorage){
        localStorage.setItem('myCatalog',JSON.stringify(data));
    }
});

Answer 1

Brackets are part of the JSON syntax. They indicate that this is an array of objects. And as you point to a view it is very likely that you would get more than one object back (one for each entry in the view).

So if you are only interested in the first element you could do this:

var REST = "./myREST.xsp/notesView"; 
$.getJSON(REST,function(data){
    if(localStorage){
        var firstRecord = data[0] || {};
        localStorage.setItem('myCatalog',JSON.stringify(firstRecord));
    }
});

Otherwise, you would need to define a loop to handle each of the objects :-)

/John