JSON Object Code Example

The first example is to demonstrate the power and the accessibility JSON offers to developers.
This is a JavaScript code designed to make things easier for the -new to JSON- developer:

    function User(fName, lName, age, friends)
    {
        var UserObject = {
            FirstName: fName,
            LastName: lName,
            Age: age,
            Friends: [],
            IsUnderAge: function()
            {
                return this.Age > 21 ? true : false;
            }
        };
       
        var FriendsCounter = 0;
        for (var frnd in friends)
        {
            UserObject.Friends[FriendsCounter] = friends[frnd];
            FriendsCounter++;
        }
       
        return UserObject;
    }

This is the constructor.  Same as in every OOP language, each object needs to have constructors.

Now, lets say I let a user named Igor fill an information form containing the following fields:

1. First Name
2. Last Name
3. Age
4. Friends - each friend will have the same fields.

On the "Submit" button I have a call for a "CreateUser" function which will take the needed fields (using jQuery - but that's for another post) and send to the User constructor.

         function createUser()
        {
            var IgorsFriends = [];
            IgorsFriends[0] = new User("Uri", "GamingTech", 29, []);
            IgorsFriends[1] = new User("Sergey", "GamingTech", 35, [
                new User("Noam", "GamingTech", 27, [])
            ]);
           
            var Igor = new User("Igor", "GamingTech", 33, IgorsFriends);
        }

The outcome of this function will be a varaible named Igor which will have the following attributes:

1. First Name
2. Last Name
3. Age

The following methods:

1. IsUnderAge

And the following Arrays:

1. Friends - which will contain list of friends as User objects. 

Good luck,
Elad Shalom,
CTO at ITweetLive.com