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deep-object

A CRUD API to manipulate objects in depth. Get, Set, Update and Delete functions available.

Installation

With npm

npm install deep-object

Example

var deepObj = require('deep-object');
var obj = {
  level1:{
    level2:{
      level3:{
        name: "Foo"
      }
    },
    anotherLevel2: "bar"
  }
};

deepObj.get(obj, ["level1", "level2"]); //returns {level3: {name: "Foo"}}

deepObj.set(obj, ["level1", "level2"], "FooBar"); //Sets level2 to "FooBar"

deepObj.remove(obj, ["level1", "level2"]); //Object now becomes, {level1: {}}

API

deepObj.get(object, path);

Gets the value at the given path

• object is a JS object
• path is a string array containing keys from outermost to innermost.

deepObj.set(object, path, value);

Sets/updates given value at the path.

• object is a JS object
• path is a string array containing keys from outermost to innermost.
• value is any valid JS variable.

deepObj.remove(object, path);

Removes the given path element.

• object is a JS object
• path is a string array containing keys from outermost to innermost.

Note

I needed this for a project. Didn't look through NPM for this. Here is my implementation.