node-object-iterator

A module to walk through an object with an iterator

Installation

npm install --save object-iterator

Usage

An iterator is a function you can call several times and of which you should expect a different value every time. In this case, the iterator iterates over the given object and returns this kind of object every time

{
    type: 'array|object|number|boolean|string|null|end-array|end-object'
    value: 8 // actual value
    key: 0 // the key (number or string) on which this value was found
}

• type is the current state of the iterator. It mostly indicates the type of the current value
• value (optional) present when the current value is a simple value (as opposed to an array or object)
• key is the key this value was found on. String for objects, numbers for arrays

var ObjectIterator = require('object-iterator');
var source = [8, {one: 1, yes: true}, null];
var next = ObjectIterator(source);
var v;
while(v = next()) {
    console.log(v.type);
}

// array
// number
// object
// number
// boolean
// end-object
// null
// end-array

An ObjectIterator() is itself an iterable object an can be used as such

var ObjectIterator = require('object-iterator');
var source = [8, {one: 1, yes: true}, null];
for (let v of ObjectIterator(source)) {
  console.log(v)
}

// array
// number
// object
// number
// boolean
// end-object
// null
// end-array

Reference

ObjectIterator(source)

Returns an iterator over the given source value.

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2013 Florent Jaby

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