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Objects to string

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script.js

// assumes either strings or objects

var obj = {
  axis: {
    x: {
      position: 'left',
      categories: {
        name: 'test-kategori'
      }
    },
    y : {
      position: 'bottom'
    }
  }
};

var newObj = {};

function setParent(o, path) {
  if (typeof o == 'object') {   
    Object.keys(o).filter(function(key) {
       return key !== 'path'; 
    }).forEach(function(key) {
      if (typeof o[key] === 'string') {
        newObj[path + '-' + key] = o[key];
      } else {
        o[key].path = path ? path + '-' + key : key;
        setParent(o[key], o[key].path);  
      }
    });    
  }  
};

setParent(obj);

console.log(obj, newObj);

Object {axis-x-position: "left", axis-x-categories-name: "test-kategori", axis-y-position: "bottom"}