json-assign-value

Assign values to JSON directly, supports direct assignments, callback and promises

browser directly!

Install via npm,

$ npm install json-assign-value

API

var jsonAssignValue = require('json-assign-value')

jsonAssignValue(query, asigningValue ,options)

Specify a query, what to assign and what to query. Returns a new objects with values assigned.

var data = {
  people: [
    {name: 'Matt', country: 'NZ'},
    {name: 'Pete', country: 'AU'},
    {name: 'Mikey', country: 'NZ'}
  ]
}

jsonAssignValue('people[country=NZ].name', 'John',  {
  data: data
}) //=> {people[{name: 'John', country: 'NZ'} ... etc

jsonAssignValue('people[country=NZ].name', (value) => `${value} Regan`,  {
  data: data, cb: true
}) //=> {people[{name: 'Matt Regan', country: 'NZ'} ... etc

jsonAssignValue('people[country=NZ].name', new Promise(resolve) => resolve("John"),  {
  data: data, asyncify: true
}) //=> {people[{name: 'John', country: 'NZ'} ... etc

jsonAssignValue('people[country=NZ].name', (value) => new Promise(resolve) => resolve(`${value} Regan`),  {
  data: data, cb: true, asyncify: true
}) //=> {people[{name: 'Matt Regan', country: 'NZ'} ... etc

Options:

• data The main object to assign values.
• allowRegexp (optional): Enable the ~ operator. Before enabling regexp match to anyone, consider the user defined regular expression security concerns.
• cb Boolean, this allows users to set value as a callback function with the matched variable available in the callback.
• asyncify Boolean, this allows users to pass promises as the values to be set

Queries

Queries are strings that describe an object or value to pluck out, or manipulate from the context object. The syntax is a little bit CSS, a little bit JS, but pretty powerful.

Accessing properties (dot notation)

person.name

Array accessors

people[0]

Array pluck

people.name => return all the names of people

Array filter

By default only the first matching item will be returned:

people[name=Matt]

But if you add an asterisk (*), all matching items will be returned:

people[*country=NZ]

You can use comparative operators:

people[*rating>=3]

Or use boolean logic:

people[* rating >= 3 & starred = true]

If options.enableRegexp is enabled, you can use the ~ operator to match RegExp:

people[*name~/^R/i]

You can also negate any of the above examples by adding a ! before the = or ~:

people[*country!=NZ]

License

MIT