I am currently working on a web form that utilizes knockout, and I need to add a new feature that allows users to save the form as a draft in the database. Later on, they should be able to load it again to make modifications or submit it.
Is there a built-in function within the knockout framework that I can use to serialize the viewmodel into another format such as JSON? This way, I could easily save it to the database and then load it back to populate my view without having to manually fill each property one by one.
While I am aware that I can save the viewmodel as a JSON object in the database and then retrieve it to update each property individually, I am looking for a more efficient solution. It would be great if there was a feature that allows me to serialize and deserialize the entire viewmodel at once, making the process much simpler. Given that my viewmodel has many properties, I prefer not to write code lines for each property like the example below:
var someJSON = /* fetched the saved viewmodel as a json */;
var parsed = JSON.parse(someJSON);
// Update view model properties
viewModel.firstName(parsed.firstName);
viewModel.pets(parsed.pets);