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The Doctor
The Doctor

Reputation: 23

Can I turn a Object.property into a String like "Object.property"?

I want to create a function to turn the keys from an object that i am accessing to a string, something like:


const test = {
  propertyOne: {
   propertyTwo: 0
  },
  propertyThree: {
   propertyFour: 0
  }
}


function ObjectKeysToString(objectReceived) {
  ...
  return stringfiedObjectReceived
}


Input: 

test.propertyOne.propertyTwo
ObjectKeysToString(test.propertyOne.propertyTwo)



Output: "test.propertyOne.propertyTwo"

Is this possible?

I've searched for this and looked for every Object method but didnt succeeded on any of them

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (1)

Konrad
Konrad

Reputation: 24661

The best you can do is propertyOne.propertyTwo. Variable names can't be accessed in runtime

const test = {
  propertyOne: {
    propertyTwo: 0
  }
}


function ObjectKeysToString(objectReceived) {
  const path = []
  let current = objectReceived
  do {
    const key = Object.keys(current)[0]
    path.push(key)
    current = current[key]
  } while (typeof current === 'object' && current !== null)

  return path.join('.')
}

console.log(ObjectKeysToString(test))

Upvotes: 1

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