Serialization at Client Side

Serialization is a process of converting Object into Raw data.In javascript many times we need to convert Raw data into Object and viceversa.
For example, when we submit a form, Its data needs to be sent to the server in JSON form.

• Serialization is the process of turning any object into a string.
• De-serialization turns that string back into a native object.

JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format inspired by JavaScript object literal notation.
Certain framework provides method to convert Model, Form data into JSON.
For eg backbone.js provieds following

• Model.toJSON for serialization
• Model.parse for de-serialization

Once we have JSON library we can use the two most useful methods whcih are availble:

• JSON.stringify(obj) — converts an JavaScript object to a JSON string
• JSON.parse(str) — converts a JSON string back to a JavaScript object

 Both are really cool features which we can use where we are interarcting with web services and serer is going to use the object to marshal into a Java Object.