adding {date: new Date( ) } to { body: 'abc' }

Question

How to add

{date: 11 Nov 2013 }

to

{ question: { title: 'a', body: 'b' }, tags: [ { name: 'Civil Laws' } ] }

so that it looks like :-

{ 
 question: { title: 'a', body: 'b' }, 
 tags: [ { name: 'Civil Laws' } ], date: 11 Nov 2013 
}

in javascript.

Just add it? What's the problem? – Tobberoth Nov 12 '13 at 14:40 — Tobberoth, Nov 12 '13 at 14:40
Please tell us what have you tried? – BenM Nov 12 '13 at 14:40 — BenM, Nov 12 '13 at 14:40
You need to quote the date value, btw. – Dave Newton Nov 12 '13 at 14:41 — Dave Newton, Nov 12 '13 at 14:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

Presumably your

{ question: { title: 'a', body: 'b' }, tags: [ { name: 'Civil Laws' } ] }

is actually assigned to a variable, like

myObject = { question: { title: 'a', body: 'b' }, tags: [ { name: 'Civil Laws' } ] }

So just use

myObject.date = new Date()

or

myObject["date"] = new Date(2013, 11 - 1, 13)

or

myObject.date = "13 Nov 2013"

Or any combination of those, depending on what exactly you're after...

If you're asking about how best to serialize dates into JSON, that is a different issue discussed here (and everywhere else when Googling for JSON dates)

Update: after reading dooxe's answer, I realise that you were probably asking about combining two objects into one. In which case dooxe's answer is probably what you want

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 14:45

You can do it like this :

http://jsfiddle.net/Sn9zD/1/

Javascript:

function extend(o1, o2)
{
   for(var p in o2)
   {
      o1[p] = o2[p];
   }
   return o1;
}

Then :

var d = {date: new Date() };
var o = { 
 question: { title: 'a', body: 'b' }, 
 tags: [ { name: 'Civil Laws' } ]
};
o = extend(o, d);

If you use jQuery, you have jQuery.extend.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 14:42

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The problem becomes simple when u realize x = { question: { title: 'a', body: 'b' }, tags: [ { name: 'Civil Laws' } ] }; is actually a javascript object.

hence: x.date = new Date(); would do it

answered Nov 12 '13 at 14:42

Sangram Singh

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