javascript, dict, and an array of dicts as a dict

Sorry (as the OP) for being silent on this for so long. I actually posted a reply to Luigi ages ago and for some reason it hasn't appeared.

Anyway, I had already seen that post Luigi refers to, and there are no equivalent functions to the c example in the js api for placing a dict in an array. So there does appear to be a limitation, perhaps there does exist something but it is not documented. Anyway, I was able to format what I wanted as a json string and write it to file.

here's the code:

//will concatenate one or more dicts as an array of objects, 
//keyed with the second argument of the addParent function 
//outputs a stringified version of the resultant composite objects

outlets = 1;

var currentChildArray;    
var    parentDictArray = new Array();
var    currentParent = new Object();
var currentChild = new Object();

function addParent(parentDictName, keyName) {    
    var parentDict = new Dict(parentDictName);    
    currentParent = dict_to_jsobj(parentDict); //currentParent is a js object
    if (keyName!=null)                            //if keyName not provided
    {
        currentChildArray = new Array();
         currentParent[keyName] = currentChildArray;    //assign global temp array currentChildArray to "items" key     
    }
    parentDictArray.push(currentParent);        //then add the parent to an array of parents
}

function addChild(childDictName) {    
    var childDict = new Dict(childDictName);    
      currentChild = dict_to_jsobj(childDict); //convert to json object        
    currentChildArray.push(currentChild);    //add to array
}

function clear(){        //purge the array of sub-dicts
    while (parentDictArray.length) { parentDictArray.pop(); }
}

function bang()
{
    output=JSON.stringify(parentDictArray); //OR add these args:, null, "\t"
    outlet (0,  output);
}

function write(p){
    var jase = JSON.stringify(parentDictArray,null,'\t');
    var path = p;
    var fout = new File(path,"write","TEXT");
    if (fout.isopen) {
        fout.eof = 0;
        fout.writeline(jase);
        fout.close();
        post("\nJSON Write",path);
    } else {
        post("\ncould not create json file: " + path);
    }
}

// returns or includes null if there is a dict without containing data.
function dict_to_jsobj(dict) {
    if (dict == null) return null;
    var o = new Object();
    var keys = dict.getkeys();
    if (keys == null || keys.length == 0) return null;

    if (keys instanceof Array) {
        for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++)
        {
            var value = dict.get(keys[i]);
            
            if (value && value instanceof Dict) {
                value = dict_to_jsobj(value);
            }
            o[keys[i]] = value;
        }        
    } else {
        var value = dict.get(keys);
        
        if (value && value instanceof Dict) {
            value = dict_to_jsobj(value);
        }
        o[keys] = value;
    }

    return o;
}