Replace .toString() single quotes with double quotes

Question

Perhaps a strange request, but I'm using CouchDB views, which requires a string to be surrounded by double quotes.

This works:

?key=["test","234"]

This won't work:

?key=['test','234']

So in my NodeJS application, I'm trying to build up the correct key to pass to CouchDB

var key1 = "test";
var key2 = "234";

{ key: [key1, key2] }

This always comes out as

{ key: [ 'test', '234' ] }

Is there any effective way to get my desired output? (double quotes)

Answer 1

CouchDB does not need double-quotes per se; it needs JSON-encoded parameters.

That's good news for you! Just build your key however you like in JavaScript:

var key = [
    'test',
    '234'
]

And then JSON-encode it before sending to CouchDB:

key = JSON.stringify(key) // Result: the string '["test","234"]'