Re: Programming question

[Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:32 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: 
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 18:34, Alexander Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the
> > command line
> >
> >
> > var serializer = new Serializer()
> > serializer.deserialize('B64ENCe30=')
> >
> > can't find any reference on how serialize works and can't find any
> > cmdline tools to help
> 
> A Javascript (or at least a general programming) mailing list/forum
> might be a better place to ask.
true

> 
> Also some context might be nice. I am not a JS programmer, but
> I think serializer could theoretically be anything. That said, JSON
> is a common data format in JS, so you might look into that (although
> I would expect something more like JSON.serialize() if it was).
> Otherwise it might be XML of some sort.
it comes from a web stock trading site, it is used to display the daily
ticker move as a graph.  I was hoping to write a script to extract the
data.  But as Dave pointed out in the other reply, there are probably
encoding and decoding functions used as well :(

> 
> I am really not sure what to make of the argument being passed
> in, it looks like a it's talking about Base 64 encoding (B64ENC),
> but why that's in the name I don't know

I was actually hoping there was some standard way to (de)serialize in
javascript.

I guess I am going to have to do some more digging :)

Thanks

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
> 
>