JavaScript - Building JSON object

Question

I'm trying to understand how to build a JSON object in JavaScript. This JSON object will get passed to a JQuery ajax call. Currently, I'm hard-coding my JSON and making my JQuery call as shown here:

$.ajax({
  url: "/services/myService.svc/PostComment",
  type: "POST",
  contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
  data: '{"comments":"test","priority":"1"}',
  dataType: "json",
  success: function (res) {
    alert("Thank you!");
  },
  error: function (req, msg, obj) {
    alert("There was an error");
  }
});        

This approach works. But, I need to dynamically build my JSON and pass it onto the JQuery call. However, I cannot figure out how to dynamically build the JSON object. Currently, I'm trying the following without any luck:

var comments = $("#commentText").val();
var priority = $("#priority").val();
var json = { "comments":comments,"priority":priority };

$.ajax({
  url: "/services/myService.svc/PostComment",
  type: "POST",
  contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
  data: json,
  dataType: "json",
  success: function (res) {
    alert("Thank you!");
  },
  error: function (req, msg, obj) {
    alert("There was an error");
  }
}); 

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I noticed that with the second version, my service is not even getting reached.

Thank you

Answer 1

You may want to look at the JSON JavaScript library. It has a stringify() function which I think will do exactly what you need.