ObjectDotNotate

ObjectDotNotate turns nested json objects into dotted strings with their corresponding values it takes in an object and returns an object with string notation of all nested objects . This comes in handy when you are filtering a mongo db query using a nested object or a simple object.

Installation

 npm i objectdotnotate

Usage

 var objectdotnotate = require('objectdotnotate');

Example

 var data = {
      obj: "obj",
      nested_once: { first: "first" },
      nested_twice: {
          twice: { inner_nest: { second: "second" } }
      },
      nested_thrice: {
          thrice: { second_nest: { tripple_nest: { tripple: "thrice" }, three: "three" } }
      }
  }

call the relevant method to convert our object

    var returnedObj = objectdotnotate(data)

returnedObj output

        console.log(returnedObj)

  {
    obj: 'obj',
    'nested_once.first': 'first',
    'nested_twice.twice.inner_nest.second': 'second',
    'nested_thrice.thrice.second_nest.tripple_nest.tripple': 'thrice',
    'nested_thrice.thrice.second_nest.three': 'three'
  }

If an object passed in has an array value, Then the output will be as below

Example

data={
    obj: "obj",
        nested_once: { first: "first" },
        nested_twice: {
            twice: { inner_nest: [1,2,3,4,5] }
        }
}

conversion

returnedObj = objectdotnotate(data)

output

console.log(returnedObj)

{
  obj: 'obj',
  'nested_once.first': 'first',
  'nested_twice.twice.inner_nest': [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
}

The returned object can easily be looped over while filtering a query.

Don't pass in an array of objects.