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Carnifex
Carnifex

Reputation: 57

How to dynamically access object's property?

I have trouble accessing object' property in the example below. On the third line I'd like to have the number 42 replaced with the value of the variable devNumTemp, but so far I'm not successfull.

What is the proper way to do this? I've tried several options, but never getting any further than getting undefined.

function getTempDev(devNumTemp, devNumHum, id, description){
  $.getJSON("http://someurl.com/DeviceNum=" + devNumTemp,function(result){
  var array = result.Device_Num_42.states;
  function objectFindByKey(array, key, value) {
   for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
     if (array[i][key] === value) {
     $("#id").html(description + "<div class='right'>" + array[i].value + "&deg;C" + "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(" + someVariable + "%" + ")" + "<br></div>");
     }
     }
   };
   objectFindByKey(array, 'service', 'something');
   });
};

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (1)

Mironor
Mironor

Reputation: 1187

You can acces to object's properties like this

var array = result["Device_Num_" + devNumTemp].states;

It's considered a good practice to test for field's existance before trying to access it:

    var array = [];
    if (result && result["Device_Num_" + devNumTemp]){
        array = result["Device_Num_" + devNumTemp].states;
    }

This way we prevent Null Pointer Exception type errors.

Upvotes: 1

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