JavaScript toObject() method

Use of toObject() method of Hash class in JavaScript. Hash is just like an associative array, binding unique keys to values.

Use of toObject() method of Hash class in JavaScript. Hash is just like an associative array, binding unique keys to values. This method returns a cloned object. You can see in the given example, we have create an instance of Hash class consisting of unique keys and their values. The method hash.toObject() returns the unique keys. The hash.get('a') returns the value of this unique key.

Here is the code:


<html>

<head>

<h2>Use toObject() method in JavaScript</h2>

<script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js">

</script>

<script>

var hash = new Hash({ a: "Rose", b: "India", c: "Technologies" });

var obj = hash.toObject();

document.write( "The value of a is: " + hash.get('a')+"<br>");

document.write( "The value of b is: " + hash.get('b')+"<br>");

document.write( "The value of c is: " + hash.get('c')+"<br>");

document.write( "The keys are: " + Object.keys(obj) );

</script>

</head>

</html>

To run the above code, you need to include the file 'prototype.js' which defines several functions. You can download this file from the site prototypejs.org

Here is the code of prototype.js

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