What I thought was going to be simple enough is turning out to be a headache for days. I can get it to work hard-coding it but cannot get it to work in a loop. This is what i have hard-coded.
let vt = [{animal:"dog"},{color:"green"},{tail:"curly"}];
vt[0]["children"]={pupname:"harry",pupcolor:"red"}
vt[0]["children"]["children"]={pupname:"joe",pupcolor:"brown"}
vt[0]["children"]["children"]["children"]={pupname:"itchy",pupcolor:"black"}
console.log(JSON.stringify(vt));
This will give me what i want.
[{
"animal": "dog",
"children": {
"pupname": "harry",
"pupcolor": "red",
"children": {
"pupname": "joe",
"pupcolor": "brown",
"children": {
"pupname": "itchy",
"pupcolor": "black"
}
}
}
}, {
"color": "green"
}, {
"tail": "curly"
}]
This is a simplified version and there could be many objects in the array. I cant get it to work in a loop. The ever increasing number of children keys is my problem, or maybe i'm way off track anyway. Any pointers welcome
you can do that:
const vt = [ { animal: 'dog' }, { color: 'green' }, { tail: 'curly' } ];
[ { pupname:'harry', pupcolor:'red' }
, { pupname:'joe', pupcolor:'brown' }
, { pupname:'itchy', pupcolor:'black' }
].reduce((a,c)=>a.children = c, vt[0]);
console.log( vt );.as-console-wrapper {max-height: 100%!important;top:0 }