Thursday, June 16, 2011

Tip: Grails variable in javascript

A grails var can be accessed in javascript using $ notation

var rsData = '${ruleSetData}';
If you want to convert it to JSON use encodeAsJSON()
 
var objJSONData =  '${gObject.encodeAsJSON()}' 
and parse this object in javascript using
var parsedJSONData = eval(objJSONData); 
This obj can then be used in JS as
for(var i=0; i< parsedJSONData.length; i++){
  alert(parsedJSONData[i].propertyName);
}