Trying to do something simple with Local Storage

Question

I have an Item in local storage called storedItems

storedItems: "[{"name": "Phil", "going": "null"},{another object},{another}]"

It's an array of objects, meant to organize names and the status of weather or not they are attending an event. This is a challenge from the treehouse course dom scripting by example.

I'm trying to access the going property of a certain object in storedItems, and change it to the boolean I want. What am I doing wrong?

Here is what getStoredListItems() does :

function getStoredListItems() {
  var storedItems = localStorage.getItem('storedItems'); 
  if(storedItems) {
    return JSON.parse(storedItems);
  }
  else {
   return []; 
  }
}

This is where the problem comes in

getStoredListItems().forEach(function(obj){

          if(obj.name == liText) { // liText ins't shown here, but this if block fires correctly
             function updateGoing(obj, bool) {
                  var stringyBool = JSON.stringify(bool);
                  localStorage.setItem(obj.going, stringyBool);
              }
            updateGoing(obj, true); // this doesn't work. obj.going stays null, it's default value.
             // yes, i've tried refreshing the page
          }

        });

Answer 1 · 2018-05-19T00:05:54Z

May 19, 2018 12:05am

Did you look at what's being put into the local storage?

[object Storage] {
  null: "true",
  true: "true"
}

Try using "console.log" to show the arguments you are passing to the local storage function. I'll bet it's not what you thought you were giving it.

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