srcubber

Find and replace values in objects. Easily walk unkown structures and operate on its values. In-place updates by just returning whatever you want the new value to be.

install

npm install scrubber

usage

Find and replace string ObjectIDs

var query = {
  $or: [
    {
      _id: '4fc487cc0afe090000000048'
    },
    {
      name: 'foo',
      _id: {$in: [1, 2, 3, '4fc487cc0afe090000000048']}
    },
    {
      number: {$gt: 7}
    }
  ]
}

scrub(query, function (obj, key, parent, type) {
  // find any value that might be an ObjectID
  if(type == 'string' && obj.length === 24) {
    try {
      // try and create one
      var id = ObjectID.createFromHexString(obj)
    } catch() { }
    
    // replace the value with id
    return id
  }
})

Sum all the numbers in an object.

sum = {
  a: [1]
  b: {
    c: [2],
    d: {
      e: [3],
      f: {
        g: [4]
      }
    }
  }
}

total = 0

scrub(sum, function(obj, key, parent, type) {
  if(type == number) {
    total += obj
  }
})

console.log(tota); // 10

Its also kinda cool that it can replace any other way of iterating. But don't use it unless you need to walk an unknown structure.

function count(obj) {
  var c = 0;
  scrub(obj, function() { c++ });
  return c;
}

count([1,2,3]) // 3

count({a: 1, b: 2, c:, 3}) // 3

var crazy = {
  a: {
    b: {
      c: {
        d: {
          e: [1, 2, 3, 4, {
            f: 5,
            g: {
              h: {i: 6, j: k: 7, l: 8, m: 9}
            }
          }]
        }
      }
    }
  }
};

count(crazy) // 9