I read the property of an object I want to access from a string: level1.level2.property OR level1.property OR ... The names and the nesting may vary. I store the objects in a separate module (workerFunctions).
I know that I can access the objects dynamically with the []notation, e.g.:
var level1="level1";
var property="property";
console.log(workerFunctions[level1][property])
However, I don't know how to construct this "workerFunctions[level1][property]" dynamically from varying input strings, so to produce e.g.:
console.log(workerFunctions[level1][level2][property])
in consequence of the string: level1.level2.property.
Thank you in advance.
You could split the path and use the parts as properties for the given object.
function getValue(o, path) {
return path.split('.').reduce(function (o, k) {
return (o || {})[k];
}, o);
}
var o = { A : { B: { C: { value: 'Brenda' } } } };
console.log(getValue(o, 'A.B.C').value); // Brenda
console.log(getValue(o, 'Z.Y.X')); // undefined
For better use with dots in properties, you could use an array directly to avoid wrong splitting.
function getValue(o, path) {
return path.reduce(function (o, k) {
return (o || {})[k];
}, o);
}
var o = { A : { 'B.C': { value: 'Brenda' } } };
console.log(getValue(o, ['A', 'B.C', 'value'])); // Brenda
console.log(getValue(o, ['Z.Y.X'])); // undefined