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Compare values of object JavaScript

I have an object in JS like this:
var getToDoValue = document.getElementById("toDoInput").value;
var nameOfTeamMember = "Tobias";
var person = new Object();
person.task = "Task: " + getToDoValue;
person.member = "Member: " + nameOfTeamMember;
But problem comes when I try to enter the value of "nameOfTeamMember into an if statement:
var mem = person.member;
if (mem == "Tobias") {
console.log("works");
}
This does not work. But when I just console.log "var mem" outside of if statement it gives me "Member: Tobias". Any suggestions? Im still kinda new to JS so prob something with the comparisons

the issue with you code is that the value in person.member is "Member: Tobias" as you pointed out from the result of your console.log, which is the result from the line of code below where you are concatenating the name with the string "Memeber: " and assigning it to the member property.
person.member = "Member: " + nameOfTeamMember;
One option you could use to do the comparison would be:
if (mem.contains("Tobias", 8) {
console.log("works");
}
The 8 is so your search starts after the colon (:) so you don't include "Member:" in it, just what comes after it, which is the actual member name.

Convert string with '=' to JSON format

I am trying to convert a string i receive back from an API into a JSON object in Angular.
The issue is that the string is not normalized to be parsed into JSON easily.
This is the string im working with:
"{rootCause=EJBusinessException: This is a sample exception thrown for testing additional info field, description=This is a more detailed description about the incident., stackTrace=com.springboot.streams.infrastructure.web.heartbeat.HeartbeatService.testServiceNow(HeartbeatService.java:200)}"
When trying to do JSON.parse(myStr) it throws an error due to invalid string format.
Is there an easy way to convert the listed string into a more correct JSON format, getting rid of the '=' and replacing them with ':' instead.
There is more to it than just .replace(/['"]+/g, ''), as even with that the string is not ready to be turned into JSON yet.
Hoping someone more versed in Javascript knows a trick i dont.

You just need to manipulate the string before parsing it remove unecessary string that can cause error to the object like "{" and "}" and split it by "," example is in below.
var obj = {}, str = "{rootCause=EJBusinessException: This is a sample exception thrown for testing additional info field, description=This is a more detailed description about the incident., stackTrace=com.springboot.streams.infrastructure.web.heartbeat.HeartbeatService.testServiceNow(HeartbeatService.java:200)}"
str.split(",").forEach((st, i) => {
pair = st.split("=")
if(pair.length > 1) {
obj[pair[0].replace("{",'').replace("}", '').trim()] = pair[1]
} else {
obj[i] = pair
}
})
console.log(obj)

As commenters have posted, unless you control the API or at least have documentation that output will always follow a specific format, then you are limited in what you can do. With your current example, however you can trim off the extraneous bits to get the actual data... (remove braces, split on comma, split on equals) to get your key:value pairs... then build a javascript object from scratch with the data... if you need json string at that point can just JSON.stringify()
var initialString = "{rootCause=EJBusinessException: This is a sample exception thrown for testing additional info field, description=This is a more detailed description about the incident., stackTrace=com.springboot.streams.infrastructure.web.heartbeat.HeartbeatService.testServiceNow(HeartbeatService.java:200)}"
var trimmedString = initialString.substr(1, initialString.length - 2);
var pairArray = trimmedString.split(',');
var objArray = [];
pairArray.forEach(pair => {
var elementArray = pair.split('=');
var obj = {
key: elementArray[0].trim(),
value: elementArray[1].trim()
};
objArray.push(obj);
});
var returnObj = {};
objArray.forEach(element => {
returnObj[element.key] = element.value;
});
console.log(JSON.stringify(returnObj));

Javascript- convert content in textbox to key value pair

I have a textbox which accepts user defined key value pairs like:
{'Apple':'Red', 'Lemon':'Green'} and i want it to be converted to an array of key value pair.
I have code:
var color= document.getElementById('txtColor').value;
The problem is i get it just as a string if i try: color['Apple'] it shows undefined; whereas i expect 'Red'. How can i do the conversion so that i get something like:
var color={'Apple':'Red', 'Lemon':'Green'}
and get value 'Red' on color['Apple'].
Thanks in advance.

I have a similar usecase. You have to JSON.parse() the value.
var obj = JSON.parse(document.getElementById('txtColor').value.replace(/'/g, '"'));
console.log(obj['Apple']);
<textarea id="txtColor">{'Apple':'Red', 'Lemon':'Green'}</textarea>

I assume following
let color = document.getElementById('txtColor').value; // This line returns {'Apple':'Red', 'Lemon':'Green'}
If I'm correct you can do following
try {
// Here you can write logic for format json ex. Convert single quotes to double quotes
// This may help to convert well formatted json string https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4810841/how-can-i-pretty-print-json-using-javascript
let colorJson = JSON.parse(color);
console.log(colorJson["Apple"]) // This will return your expected value.
} catch(e) {
console.log('Invalid json format')
}

var color = document.getElementById('txtColor').value;
//JSON.stringify will validate the JSON string
var jsonValidString = JSON.stringify(eval("(" + color + ")"));
//If JSON string is valid then we can conver string to JSON object
var JSONObj = JSON.parse(jsonValidString);
//We can use JSON.KeyName or JSON["KeyName"] both way you can get value
console.log(JSONObj.Apple, " --- ", JSONObj["Apple"]);
console.log(JSONObj.Lemon, " --- ", JSONObj["Lemon"]);
<input id="txtColor" value="{'Apple':'Red', 'Lemon':'Green'}" type="text" />

Display thumbnailPhoto from Active Directory using Javascript only - Base64 encoding issue

Here's what I'm trying to do:
From an html page using only Javascript I'm trying to query the Active Directory and retrieve some user's attributes.
Which I succeded to do (thanks to some helpful code found around that I just cleaned up a bit).
I can for example display on my html page the "displayName" of the user I provided the "samAccountName" in my code, which is great.
But I also wanted to display the "thumbnailPhoto" and here I'm getting some issues...
I know that the AD provide the "thumbnailPhoto" as a byte array and that I should be able to display it in a tag as follow:
<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64," />
including base64 encoded byte array at the end of the src attribute.
But I cannot manage to encode it at all.
I tried to use the following library for base64 encoding:
https://github.com/beatgammit/base64-js
But was unsuccesful, it's acting like nothing is returned for that AD attribute, but the photo is really there I can see it over Outlook or Lync.
Also when I directly put that returned value in the console I can see some weird charaters so I guess there's something but not sure how it should be handled.
Tried a typeof to find out what the variable type is but it's returning "undefined".
I'm adding here the code I use:
var ADConnection = new ActiveXObject( "ADODB.connection" );
var ADCommand = new ActiveXObject( "ADODB.Command" );
ADConnection.Open( "Data Source=Active Directory Provider;Provider=ADsDSOObject" );
ADCommand.ActiveConnection = ADConnection;
var ou = "DC=XX,DC=XXXX,DC=XXX";
var where = "objectCategory = 'user' AND objectClass='user' AND samaccountname='XXXXXXXX'";
var orderby = "samaccountname ASC";
var fields = "displayName,thumbnailPhoto";
var queryType = fields.match( /,(memberof|member),/ig ) ? "LDAP" : "GC";
var path = queryType + "://" + ou;
ADCommand.CommandText = "select '" + fields + "' from '" + path + "' WHERE " + where + " ORDER BY " + orderby;
var recordSet = ADCommand.Execute;
fields = fields.split( "," );
var data = [];
while(!recordSet.EOF)
{
var rowResult = { "length" : fields.length };
var i = fields.length;
while(i--)
{
var fieldName = fields[i];
if(fieldName == "directReports" && recordSet.Fields(fieldName).value != null)
{
rowResult[fieldName] = true;
}
else
{
rowResult[fieldName] = recordSet.Fields(fieldName).value;
}
}
data.push(rowResult);
recordSet.MoveNext;
}
recordSet.Close();
console.log(rowResult["displayName"]);
console.log(rowResult["thumbnailPhoto"]);
(I replaced db information by Xs)
(There's only one entry returned that's why I'm using the rowResult in the console instead of data)
And here's what the console returns:
LOG: Lastname, Firstname
LOG: 񏳿က䙊䙉Āā怀怀
(same here Lastname & Firstname returned are the correct value expected)
This is all running on IE9 and unfortunetly have to make this compatible with IE9 :/
Summary:
I need to find a solution in Javascript only
I know it should be returning a byte array and I need to base64 encode it, but all my attempts failed and I'm a bit clueless on the reason why
I'm not sure if the picture is getting returned at all here, the thing in the console seems pretty small... or if I'm nothing doing the encoding correctly
If someone could help me out with this it would be awesome, I'm struggling with this for so long now :/
Thanks!

Google Apps Script - Dynamically Add Remove UiApp Form Elements

I am looking to create a Ui form section in my application that will Dynamically Add Remove UiApp Form Elements. I was trying to use the example from App Script Tutorials here
This example works great as far as performing the add remove elements, but when I use the submit button to capture the values, it submits as a JSON.stringify format. When I just want to capture the values only in a text or string format that will be added to a html email.
If there is way to convert JSON.stringify to text, string or get the values only in format, I will continue to use this example.
If not I was wonder if the following Javascript HTML code can be convert into GAS code and able to capture the values for each entry in a HTML email template to using in MailApp.
http://jsfiddle.net/g59K7/
Any suggestions, examples or adjustments to the codes would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance

If you don't want the result to be in a JSON object, then you can adjust the _processSubmittedData(e) function. Right now he has it writing everything to an Object, which is fine. All you have to do is have a way to parse it:
function _processSubmittedData(e){
var result = {};
result.groupName = e.parameter.groupName;
var numMembers = parseInt(e.parameter.table_tag);
result.members = [];
//Member info array
for(var i=1; i<=numMembers; i++){
var member = {};
member.firstName = e.parameter['fName'+i];
member.lastName = e.parameter['lName'+i];
member.dateOfBirth = e.parameter['dob'+i];
member.note = e.parameter['note'+i];
result.members.push(member);
}
var htmlBody = 'Group Name: ' + result.groupName;
for(var a in result.members) {
var member = result.members[a];
var date = member.dateOfBirth;
var last = member.lastName;
var first = member.firstName;
var note = member.note;
htmlBody += first + ' ' + last + ' was born on ' + date + ' and has this note: ' + note;
}
MailApp.sendEmail('fakeEmail#fake.com',"Test Subject Line", "", {htmlBody: htmlBody});
}