$.fn.serializeObject = function () {

var

result = Object.create(null),

mapper = function (element) {

element.name = $.camelCase(element.name);

return element;

},

extend = function (i, element) {

var node = result[element.name];

// If node with same name exists already, need to convert it to an array as it

// is a multi-value field (i.e., checkboxes)

if ('undefined' !== typeof node && node !== null) {

result[element.name] = node.push ? node.push(element.value) : [node, element.value];

} else {

result[element.name] = element.value;

}

};

// For each serialzable element, convert element names to camelCasing and

// extend each of them to a JSON object

$.each($.map(this.serializeArray(), mapper), extend);

return result;

};