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A way to recursively get or set a property dynamically at any level within an object.
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const getObjectProperty = (object, properties) => { | |
return properties.length === 0 ? object : getObjectProperty(object[properties[0]], properties.slice(1)) | |
} | |
const setObjectProperty = (object, properties, value) => { | |
if (properties.length === 1) { | |
object[properties[0]] = value | |
} | |
getObjectProperty(object, properties.slice(0, properties.length - 1))[properties[properties.length - 1]] = value | |
} | |
// Working example | |
const example = { a: { b: { c: [ { d: 1 } ] } } } | |
console.log('Before:', getObjectProperty(example, ['a', 'b', 'c', 0, 'd'])) | |
setObjectProperty(example, ['a', 'b', 'c', 0, 'd'], 0) // Changes example.a.b.c[0].d from 1 to 0 | |
console.log('After:', getObjectProperty(example, ['a', 'b', 'c', 0, 'd'])) |
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