[Mapbender-dev] Re: [Mapbender] #120: replace ["..."] with dot notation in JS

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Christoph,

I thought that the root of the failure might be the (IMHO) incorrect 
usage of arrays in Javascript. Correct me if I'm but AFAIK there are no 
associative arrays within javascript. The purpose of these are handles 
by objects. I know that object have some disadvantages -- e.g. they are 
missing the length property.

I personally favor the bracketed syntax, but thats a sole personal 
preference.


-- Marc

Christoph Baudson (WhereGroup) schrieb:
> Sorry for the last post. Ignore it. Too much copy and paste for any 
> human to handle. Here's the version I intended to post
>
> -- 
>
> To illustrate the difference, an example
>
> Does not work with toJSONString()
>
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count] = [];
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count]["name"] = styleName;
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count]["title"] = styleTitle;
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count]["legendurl"] = styleLegendUrl;
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count]["legendurlformat"] = 
> styleLegendUrlFormat;
>
> Does work
>
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count] = {};
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count].name = styleName;
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count].title = styleTitle;
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count].legendurl = styleLegendUrl;
>        currentLayer.layer_style[count].legendurlformat = 
> styleLegendUrlFormat;
>
> May work, not tried (curly brackets in line 1)
>
>       currentLayer.layer_style[count] = {};
>       currentLayer.layer_style[count]["name"] = styleName;
>       currentLayer.layer_style[count]["title"] = styleTitle;
>       currentLayer.layer_style[count]["legendurl"] = styleLegendUrl;
>       currentLayer.layer_style[count]["legendurlformat"] = 
> styleLegendUrlFormat;
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