I'd like to be able to create a javascript object from my html form and am wondering if there's a good way to do this using jquery. I guess what i'm looking for is something similar to $.serialize, but which would result in a map instead of a string.

<form>
  <input type="text" name="foo1" value="bar1" />
  <input type="text" name="foo2" value="bar2" />
</form>

desired result:

{ foo1:"bar1", foo2:"bar2" }