How to stringify a whole Javascript Object including proto properties?

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I am sorry if this is a duplicate, so far I couldn't find the same question.

I have an Object with various methods in my __proto__ member. Let's call the type of this object myObjectType.

Later on I have to do a JSON.stringify(myObjectType). The problem is that then when I build my object from the previous obtained JSON string the type of my Object is plain Object, I lost all the methods I had.

Does any one see why ?

z33m · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 12:53:55Z

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search google for javascript object serialization.

GSerializer library

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z33m Over a year ago

Vm hmm by my effigy.ie.

Pointy · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 12:54:27Z

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There's no standardized way of incorporating functions into JSON data. You can do something yourself — that is, write your own JSON serializer that incorporates functions according to some convention — but with straight standard JSON you get numbers, strings, booleans, and null, plus of course objects with named properties and arrays. No functions, just data.

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Andrew Over a year ago

stackoverflow.com/questions/8779249/…

esdot · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 13:30:51Z

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I'd highly recommend Douglas Crockford's libraries:

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js

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