For three reasons :
- No support for associative arrays in vanilla JS
- Creating deep levels keys in a vanilla JS Object can programmatically be a pain if none of parent keys exists
- Bored of always using the same snippets everywhere and wants to have a less then 10KB NPM dependency ready to import
DOA is an object with a set of methods to :
- Check, push, get and store data with ease regardless of its level
- Bring some array-like behaviours for convenience (you know
forEachfor arrays, eh ?) - Provide data serializers and parsers
- Work as well on a whole dataset or a key-based sub-selection of the dataset
- Ease management of options default values
// Import data at creationvardoa=newObjectArray({item1: 3,item2: 12,item3: 5});// Add datadoa.push('item4',4);// Single item or datasetdoa.import({item5: 5,item6: 6});// Add data with dotted notationsdoa.push('dat.long.darn.key','isntIt?');// Will automatically create each keys// Define default values// Will keep value if existent or create keys with value if notdoa.define('options.section1.item14',true);//Iterate on keys at root level or in sub datasetdoa.forEach(function(value,key,index){[...]});doa.forEach(function(value,key,index){[...]},'dat.path.to.data');// Sub dataset importdoa.import({subitem1: 1,subitem2: 'astring',subitem3: {obj: really}},'dat.long.and.far.away.key');// sub dataset accessdoa.dataset('dat.long.and.far.away.key');// ordoa.pull('dat.long.and.far.away.key');// And many more !The ObjectArray class is provided as a UMD module.
npm install dot-object-array
or
yarn add dot-object-array
Then simply require/import it :
importObjectArrayfrom'dot-object-array';constObjectArray=require('dot-object-array').default;ObjectArray have been coded with ECMA6 class standard.
DOA is available as CDN external link or can easily be installed locally.
<scripttype="text/javascript" src="https://bundle.run/dot-object-array@latest"></script><scripttype="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/dot-object-array@latest"></script><scripttype="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/dot-object-array@latest"></script>For browser install, you can simply fetch file dist/objectarray.min.js in this repo or clone it and load it :
<scripttype="text/javascript" src="myJsFolder/objectarray.min.js"></script>An ObjectArray constructor will be added to global (window) scope.
In version 1.x, a non-existent key yields to an undefined returned value.
In version 2.x, a non-existent key data request raises an exception except for some methods that can leverage a throwable trigger.
Since version 3.x, the behaviour can be configure per method call or override globally. Each data request have a predefined behaviour given its goal. For instance, the empty method will throw an exception by default and a dataset call will return undefined by default.
Please check API reference for details.
If you want to go further and try a bit, you can go to the playground.
A full documentation (manual and API reference) set is available :
You can easily use ObjectArrays to manipulate JSON data. Just rely on JSON native object to import your JSON structure, manipulate it with ObjectArray ease and get it back at the end 😉
varjstring='{"dat": {"long": {"path": "foo", "dream": "baz"}}}';vardoa=newObjectArray(JSON.parse(jstring));// Let's say we want to move all dat.long stuff to a short thingdoa.push('short',doa.dataset('dat.long')).remove('dat');console.log(JSON.stringify(doa.data));// outputs {"short":{"path":"foo","dream":"baz"}}ObjectArray is test-driven though it did not prevent all issues. Please report here any trouble or features request.
There is many more to do to implements othe features. Don't mind fork DOA, tweak it and submit a pull request 😉