Good way to serialize a list? - Javascript / AJAX

Question

I just wanted to ask about it, since stones always appear in stackoverflow :)

I have the following list:

list1 = [['command','arg1','arg2'], ['command2','arg1'], ... ]

How would you recommend converting it to a string to pass as an ONE GET argument?

eg.

http://webgame_site.com/command_list/?data=...

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What I'm doing right now is separating the lists with commas , ;, but I don’t like this idea, because the method will break if I decide to enter them in strings.

I try to be as compact as possible.

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One of my ideas is to encode the list in base64:

[['command','arg1','arg2'], ['command2','arg1']]
=> "W1snY29tbWFuZCcsJ2FyZzEnLCdhcmcyJ10sWydjb21tYW5kMicsJ2FyZzEnXV0="

which is less than URIencode

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Any ideas? :)

Answer 1

json, , encodeURI.

var list1 = [['command','arg1','arg2'], ['command2','arg1']];
var encoded = encodeURI(JSON.stringify(list1));

alert(encoded);

base64:

var list1 = [['command','arg1','arg2'], ['command2','arg1']];
var encoded = btoa(JSON.stringify(list1));

alert(encoded);
alert(atob(encoded));

Answer 2

jQuery.param() .