JSON Serialization

SpreadJS supports JSON serialization and de-serialization. You can save a spreadsheet to JSON and open the JSON object to initialize Spread. This is useful for when you want an easy way to save and load entire Spread or Sheet instances to/from a database.

You can set a few options — like the ones listed in code below — when you serialize the JSON object: Then, you can use the JSON.stringify function to serialize the JSON object, which is returned from toJSON with the following options: You can also set a few options — like the ones in code below — when deserializing the JSON string. Use the JSON.parse function to deserialize the JSON string, and use the fromJSON function to initialize the Spread object with the options listed below to create a new spreadsheet that matches spread1.
window.onload = function() { var spread = new GC.Spread.Sheets.Workbook(_getElementById('ss'), { sheetCount: 3 }); var spread2 = new GC.Spread.Sheets.Workbook(_getElementById('ss1'), { sheetCount: 1 }); initSpread(spread); }; function initSpread(spread) { var sheet = spread.getSheet(0); fillStyle(sheet); var pivotSourceSheet = spread.getSheet(1); pivotSourceSheet.name("PivotSourceData"); var pivotSourceTableName = fillPivotSourceData(pivotSourceSheet); var pivotTableSheet = spread.getSheet(2); pivotTableSheet.name("PivotTable"); fillPivotTable(pivotTableSheet, pivotSourceTableName); _getElementById('fromtoJsonBtn').addEventListener('click', function() { var jsonOptions = { ignoreFormula: !!_getElementById('import_noFormula').checked, ignoreStyle: !!_getElementById('import_noStyle').checked, frozenColumnsAsRowHeaders: !!_getElementById('import_rowHeaders').checked, frozenRowsAsColumnHeaders: !!_getElementById('import_columnHeaders').checked, doNotRecalculateAfterLoad: !!_getElementById('import_donotrecalculateafterload').checked }; var serializationOption = { ignoreFormula: !!_getElementById('noFormula').checked, ignoreStyle: !!_getElementById('noStyle').checked, rowHeadersAsFrozenColumns: !!_getElementById('SaveCustomRowHeaders').checked, columnHeadersAsFrozenRows: !!_getElementById('SaveCustomColumnHeaders').checked }; //ToJson var spread1 = GC.Spread.Sheets.findControl(document.getElementById('ss')); var jsonStr = JSON.stringify(spread1.toJSON(serializationOption)); //FromJson var spread2 = GC.Spread.Sheets.findControl(document.getElementById('ss1'));; spread2.fromJSON(JSON.parse(jsonStr), jsonOptions); }); } function fillStyle(sheet) { var spreadNS = GC.Spread.Sheets; sheet.suspendPaint(); sheet.frozenRowCount(4); sheet.frozenColumnCount(4); sheet.addSpan(1, 1, 1, 3); sheet.setValue(1, 1, 'Store'); sheet.addSpan(1, 4, 1, 7); sheet.setValue(1, 4, 'Goods'); sheet.addSpan(2, 1, 1, 2); sheet.setValue(2, 1, 'Area'); sheet.addSpan(2, 3, 2, 1); sheet.setValue(2, 3, 'ID'); sheet.addSpan(2, 4, 1, 2); sheet.setValue(2, 4, 'Fruits'); sheet.addSpan(2, 6, 1, 2); sheet.setValue(2, 6, 'Vegetables'); sheet.addSpan(2, 8, 1, 2); sheet.setValue(2, 8, 'Foods'); sheet.addSpan(2, 10, 2, 1); sheet.setValue(2, 10, 'Total'); sheet.setValue(3, 1, 'State'); sheet.setValue(3, 2, 'City'); sheet.setValue(3, 4, 'Grape'); sheet.setValue(3, 5, 'Apple'); sheet.setValue(3, 6, 'Potato'); sheet.setValue(3, 7, 'Tomato'); sheet.setValue(3, 8, 'SandWich'); sheet.setValue(3, 9, 'Hamburger'); sheet.addSpan(4, 1, 7, 1); sheet.addSpan(4, 2, 3, 1); sheet.addSpan(7, 2, 3, 1); sheet.addSpan(10, 2, 1, 2); sheet.setValue(10, 2, 'Sub Total:'); sheet.addSpan(11, 1, 7, 1); sheet.addSpan(11, 2, 3, 1); sheet.addSpan(14, 2, 3, 1); sheet.addSpan(17, 2, 1, 2); sheet.setValue(17, 2, 'Sub Total:'); sheet.addSpan(18, 1, 1, 3); sheet.setValue(18, 1, 'Total:'); sheet.setValue(4, 1, 'NC'); sheet.setValue(4, 2, 'Raleigh'); sheet.setValue(7, 2, 'Charlotte'); sheet.setValue(4, 3, '001'); sheet.setValue(5, 3, '002'); sheet.setValue(6, 3, '003'); sheet.setValue(7, 3, '004'); sheet.setValue(8, 3, '005'); sheet.setValue(9, 3, '006'); sheet.setValue(11, 1, 'PA'); sheet.setValue(11, 2, 'Philadelphia'); sheet.setValue(14, 2, 'Pittsburgh'); sheet.setValue(11, 3, '007'); sheet.setValue(12, 3, '008'); sheet.setValue(13, 3, '009'); sheet.setValue(14, 3, '010'); sheet.setValue(15, 3, '011'); sheet.setValue(16, 3, '012'); sheet.setFormula(10, 4, '=SUM(E5:E10)'); sheet.setFormula(10, 5, '=SUM(F5:F10)'); sheet.setFormula(10, 6, '=SUM(G5:G10)'); sheet.setFormula(10, 7, '=SUM(H5:H10)'); sheet.setFormula(10, 8, '=SUM(I5:I10)'); sheet.setFormula(10, 9, '=SUM(J5:J10)'); sheet.setFormula(17, 4, '=SUM(E12:E17)'); sheet.setFormula(17, 5, '=SUM(F12:F17)'); sheet.setFormula(17, 6, '=SUM(G12:G17)'); sheet.setFormula(17, 7, '=SUM(H12:H17)'); sheet.setFormula(17, 8, '=SUM(I12:I17)'); sheet.setFormula(17, 9, '=SUM(J12:J17)'); for (var i = 0; i < 14; i++) { sheet.setFormula(4 + i, 10, '=SUM(E' + (5 + i).toString() + ':J' + (5 + i).toString() + ')'); } sheet.setFormula(18, 4, '=E11+E18'); sheet.setFormula(18, 5, '=F11+F18'); sheet.setFormula(18, 6, '=G11+G18'); sheet.setFormula(18, 7, '=H11+H18'); sheet.setFormula(18, 8, '=I11+I18'); sheet.setFormula(18, 9, '=J11+J18'); sheet.setFormula(18, 10, '=K11+K18'); sheet.getRange(1, 1, 3, 10).backColor('#F2F2F2'); sheet.getRange(4, 1, 15, 3).backColor('#CFCFCF'); sheet.getRange(1, 1, 3, 10).hAlign(spreadNS.HorizontalAlign.center); sheet.getRange(1, 1, 18, 10).setBorder(new spreadNS.LineBorder('Black', spreadNS.LineStyle.thin), { all: true }); sheet.getRange(4, 4, 3, 6).setBorder(new spreadNS.LineBorder('Black', spreadNS.LineStyle.dotted), { inside: true }); sheet.getRange(7, 4, 3, 6).setBorder(new spreadNS.LineBorder('Black', spreadNS.LineStyle.dotted), { inside: true }); sheet .getRange(11, 4, 3, 6) .setBorder(new spreadNS.LineBorder('Black', spreadNS.LineStyle.dotted), { inside: true }); sheet .getRange(14, 4, 3, 6) .setBorder(new spreadNS.LineBorder('Black', spreadNS.LineStyle.dotted), { inside: true }); fillSampleData(sheet, new spreadNS.Range(4, 4, 6, 6)); fillSampleData(sheet, new spreadNS.Range(11, 4, 6, 6)); sheet.resumePaint(); } function fillSampleData(sheet, range) { for (var i = 0; i < range.rowCount; i++) { for (var j = 0; j < range.colCount; j++) { sheet.setValue(range.row + i, range.col + j, Math.ceil(Math.random() * 300)); } } } function fillPivotSourceData(sheet) { sheet.setRowCount(117); sheet.getCell(-1, 0).formatter("YYYY-mm-DD"); sheet.getRange(-1,4,0,2).formatter("$ #,##0"); let table = sheet.tables.add('table', 0, 0, 117, 6); for(let i=2;i<=117;i++) { sheet.setFormula(i-1,5,'=D'+i+'*E'+i) } table.style(GC.Spread.Sheets.Tables.TableThemes["none"]); sheet.setArray(0, 0, pivotSales); return table.name(); } function fillPivotTable (sheet, tableName) { sheet.setRowCount(1000); let pivotTableOptions = {bandRows:true,bandColumns:true}; let pivotTable = sheet.pivotTables.add("PivotTable", tableName, 1, 1, GC.Spread.Pivot.PivotTableLayoutType.outline, GC.Spread.Pivot.PivotTableThemes.medium1, pivotTableOptions); pivotTable.suspendLayout(); pivotTable.add("salesperson", "Salesperson", GC.Spread.Pivot.PivotTableFieldType.rowField); pivotTable.add("car", "Cars", GC.Spread.Pivot.PivotTableFieldType.rowField); pivotTable.add("date", "Date", GC.Spread.Pivot.PivotTableFieldType.columnField); let groupInfo = { originFieldName: "date", dateGroups: [{ by: GC.Pivot.DateGroupType.quarters }] }; pivotTable.group(groupInfo); pivotTable.add("total", "Totals", GC.Spread.Pivot.PivotTableFieldType.valueField, GC.Pivot.SubtotalType.sum); let style = new GC.Spread.Sheets.Style(); style.formatter = "$ #,##0"; pivotTable.setStyle({dataOnly: true}, style); pivotTable.resumeLayout(); pivotTable.autoFitColumn(); } function _getElementById(id){ return document.getElementById(id); }
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