Possible to keep parent key
yashinnhl opened this issue · comments
Hi I want to keep parent key and all its children as stringified JSON, is it possible to do that with flatten?
Example
{
a : 'blah',
data : {
a : 'sth',
b: 'sth'
}
}
expected output
{
a: 'blah',
data: `{
a: sth,
b: sth
}`,
data.a = sth,
data.b = sth
}
I really appreciate if you can guide me here? Thanks
We can add key and value when isObject is true.
if (isobject) {
// add first level keys example: data , data.object
output[newKey] = value;
}
Hey @yashinnhl ! I'm also interested in this.
I'm not sure I understood your second comment! What do you mean by dictionary?
Hey @yashinnhl ! I'm also interested in this.
I'm not sure I understood your second comment! What do you mean by dictionary?
Hey @giorgosera I edited my comments. Sorry for confusion. In general, I mean we can keep first level keys just like an example even if they are object.
consider this :
ExampleObject: {
a : 'blah',
data : {
a : 'sth',
b: 'sth'
}
}
Can be converted to :
{
a: 'blah',
data: { a: sth, b: sth },
data.a = sth,
data.b = sth
}
To achieve this, we need to add condition - if (isObject) - to the index, and output[newKey] = value will keep parent key for us.
For example, value = { a: sth, b: sth } will be assigned data key first and then flatten process will create data.a = sth, and data.b = sth
.
I hope it helps. I am still not sure it is optimized or not but at least worked for me :).