I have a problem that seems complicated that I don't know how to solve.
My single page application uses knockoutJS and I want to cache my view model every time one of my input values change on my view.
Where the problem lies is the complexity of my view model. To use local storage I need to stringify my object but it has recursive values. I have some logic to handle this and stringify my object. But when I try to parse the JSON string back to an object, I lose my functions.
function cacheForm(agency) {
//var serialized = stringifyOnce(agency);
//var serialized = amplify.store("Agency", agency);#
//var obj = new Object();
//obj.test = "test";
value = agency;
var cache = [];
parsed = JSON.stringify(value, function (key, value) {
if (typeof value === 'object' && value !== null) {
if (cache.indexOf(value) !== -1) {
// Circular reference found, discard key
return;
}
// Store value in our collection
cache.push(value);
}
return value;
});
//var jsonString = JSON.stringify(cache);
//cache = null; // Enable garbage collection
var parsedRecursive = "{" + '"data"' + ":" + parsed + "," + '"expires"' + ":" + null + "}"; // Build the string based on how amplify likes it
var obj = eval('(' + parsed + ')')
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(parsedRecursive);
//// Put the object into storage
//localStorage.setItem('Agency', parsedRecursive);
myData = JSON.parse(parsedRecursive, function (key, value) {
var type;
if (value && typeof value === 'object') {
type = value.type;
if (typeof type === 'string' && typeof window[type] === 'function') {
return new (window[type])(value);
}
}
return value;
});
//// Retrieve the object from storage
// var retrievedObject = localStorage.getItem('Agency');
// var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(parsedRecursive);
//var agency2 = mapping.fromJS(obj);
//agency;
//amplify.store("Agency", agency);
//amplify.store("Obj", obj);
//var store = amplify.store(); // Look at all items by not providing a key
}
});
I tried using eval but this returned an object without my data. To help you understand this is what my view model looks like, which is the agency parameter of cachForm.
Also I tried using amplify but because of my view model structure I run into the same issue.
I have also attached some screenshots to show what happens with my viewmodel in the code.