I got this type of object:
const obj = {
group: {
data: {
data: [
{
id: null,
value: 'someValue',
data: 'someData'
}
]
}
}
};
I need to edit this object so whenever null is in the property value,
it would be replaced with some string.
Meaning if the replacement string will be 'someId', the expected outcome is:
const obj = {
group: {
data: {
data: [
{
id: 'someId',
value: 'someValue',
data: 'someData'
}
]
}
}
};
Closest I found were this and this but didn't manage to manipulate the solutions there to what i need.
How should I do it?
Probably running into issues with the array values. Pass in the index of the array to modify. In this case [0]
obj.group.data.data[0].id = "someId"
EDIT
This will update all null values of id inside the data array:
obj.group.data.data.forEach(o => {
if (o.id === null) {
o.id = "someId"
}
})
Another EDIT
Here is an algorithm to recursively check all deeply nested values in an object. It will compile an array of object paths where null values live. There is an included helper method to find and update the value of the object at the given path in the array. There is a demonstration of the program in the console.
const object = {
group: {
data: {
data: [
{
id: null,
value: "foo",
data: [null, "bar", [null, { stuff: null }]]
},
{
id: null,
value: null,
data: {
bar: [null]
}
},
{
id: null,
value: "foo",
data: null
},
{
id: 4,
value: "foo",
data: "bar"
},
{
id: 4,
value: "stuff",
data: null
}
]
},
attributes: null,
errors: ["stuff", null]
}
}
const inspectProperty = (key, obj, path = "") => {
if (typeof obj[key] === "object") {
if (obj[key] instanceof Array) {
return analyzeArray(obj[key], `${path ? path + "." : ""}${key}`);
}
return analyzeObj(obj[key], `${path ? path + "." : ""}${key}`);
}
return [];
};
const analyzeKey = (obj, key, path = "") => {
if (obj[key] === null) return [`${path ? path + "." : ""}${key}`];
return inspectProperty(key, obj, path).reduce((a, k) => [...a, ...k], []);
};
const analyzeObj = (obj, path = "") => {
return Object.keys(obj).map((item) => analyzeKey(obj, item, path));
};
const analyzeArray = (array, path) => {
return array.map((item, i) => analyzeKey(array, i, path));
};
const updateNullValue = (path, value) => {
let p = path.split(".");
p.reduce((accum, iter, i) => {
if (i === p.length - 1) {
accum[iter] = value;
return object;
}
return accum[iter];
}, object);
};
let nullValues = analyzeObj(object)[0]
console.log(nullValues)
nullValues.forEach((nullVal, i) => {
updateNullValue(nullVal, "hello-" + i)
})
console.log(object)