//
// Use internal $.serializeArray to get list of form elements which is consistent with $.serialize
//
// And to avoid names such as
// => object["favorite-color"]
//
// We camelcase the name part, so the notation becomes
// => object["favoriteColor"]
//
// Conveniently, this allows period notation to be used.
// => object.favoriteColor
//
// This behaviour is similar to $(element).data()
//
// $('<div data-favorite-color="yellow"></div>').data()
// => { favoriteColor: 'yellow' }
//
$.fn.serializeObject = function () {
	"use strict";

	var result = {};
	var mapper = function (element) {
		element.name = $.camelCase(element.name);
		return element;
	};
	var 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) {
			if ($.isArray(node)) {
				node.push(element.value);
			} else {
				result[element.name] = [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;
};