Feature request: queryGet.ASSOCIATIVE

[benurb]

Hi @sagold 😄

Maybe you also think it might be a good idea to have a shortcut for the following use case:

const result = {};
jsonQuery.run(this._data, pointer, (value, key, object, dataPointer) => {
    result[dataPointer] = value;
});
// result then is something like: { pointer1: data1, pointer2: data2, ... }

The shortcut would be:

const result = jsonQuery.get(this._data, pointer, jsonQuery.get.ASSOCIATIVE);

What do you think?

Ben

[sagold]

Hi @benurb.

Yes. I Think this is a good idea. Spontaneously i would have implemented it as a separate method like in jsonpointer.dict. Using the same name or something like explode :). This stands against the interface of this repository, but it would be much simpler to use. What do you think?

[benurb]

Sounds good. I'll create a PR. I would not use dict(), because in json-pointer it doesn't use a pointer to create the dictionary. But in this use case here there is a pointer.

[benurb]

Thank you!