path-value

Property path-to-value resolver, in TypeScript.

import {resolveValue} from 'path-value';

const obj = {
    first: {
        second: {
            value: 123
        }
    }
};

resolveValue(obj, 'first.second.value'); //=> 123

It resolves both local and inherited properties.

Installing

$ npm i path-value

Features

High Performance + Full ES5 Syntax:

This library offers the best possible performance, by separating path tokenization from path resolution, which makes it possible to create highly optimized value retrieval, by caching pre-tokenized path strings.

By default, all value-resolving functions work either with a simple name-chain path or an array of tokens. In order to allow full ES5 syntax for arrays and array indexes, you have to tokenize such path first:

import {tokenizePath, resolveValue} from 'path-value';

const target = {
    first: [0, 1, {second: {"text index": 123}}]
};

const path = tokenizePath(`first[2].second["text index"]`); // tokenizing verbose ES5 path
//=> ['first', '2', 'second', 'text index']

const value = resolveValue(target, path); //=> 123

You do not need to tokenize the path, and can use it directly, if you want to support a simple-syntax path only, such as first.123.last, with array indexes used like properties.

It supports local scope, via this prefix, for alternative resolution:

const obj = {value: 1};

const scope = {value: 2}; // local scope

resolveValue.call(scope, obj, 'this.value'); //=> 2 (local scope is used)

resolveValue.call(obj, obj, 'this.value'); //=> 1 (local scope = default scope)

Lower-level resolvePath returns IPathResult descriptor:

import {resolvePath, IPathResult} from 'path-value';

const obj = {first: {value: 123}};

const res: IPathResult = resolvePath(obj, 'first.value');
//=> {chain: ['first', 'value'], scope: obj, idx: 1, exists: true, value: 123}

Function resolvePath supports local scope the same as resolveValue does. It does not throw errors on its own, only when a property getter does so.

Functions are automatically called within resolution chain:

const obj = {
    first: {
        second() {
            // called with 'this' = obj.first
            return this.value;
        },
        value: 123
    }
};

resolveValue(obj, 'first.second'); //=> 123

Function resolution is recursive. However, a function is treated as a value when it is an ES6 class or has name start with a capital, to correctly handle static class members:

resolveValue(global, 'Number.EPSILON'); //=> 2.220446049250313e-16

You can also override this with option ignoreFunctions as the third parameter.

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See also:

• Performance - performance considerations
• Examples - special-case examples
• Browsers - in-browser usage