Although, I wonder if just requiring users to wrap keys with dots in single quotes would work. I could then check for that instead of some separator. I think I like that idea better. Any thoughts on that or anything from anyone else?

On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Kris Borchers <kris@redhat.com> wrote:


On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I'm not really confortable with the double dot, but I have no other idea for the moment :) (maybe '->' ?).

Hmm, the arrows have too much baggage (arrows in typescript and coffeescript, the fat arrow (=>) making it into es6). Not sure I want to go down that path.
And should your pseudo code not be written this way : 

var filtered = filter({

        "x.sites.'google.com'.type": {
                data:  "search engine"
        }
}); 

?

I don't think so. That would still not work and the point was to show that the dots would really mess stuff up.

Seb



On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Kris Borchers <kris@redhat.com> wrote:
Hey all, I am trying to enhance the filter method to be able to filter objects based on values nested inside other objects inside that main object. My first thought was just to use dot notation to specify the field we are filtering on but that runs into issues if the key actually has a "." in it like this:

var x = {
        sites: {
                "google.com": {
                        type: "search engine"
                }
        }
}

Trying to traverse that object via:

// pseudocode
var filtered = filter({
        "x.sites.google.com.type": {
                data:  "search engine"
        }
});

would fail. I'm wondering if we should just define our own separator for the path through the object. We could use ".." (double-dot) which I think should work so something like:

// pseudocode
var filtered = filter({
        "x..sites..google.com..type": {
                data:  "search engine"
        }
});

Then I can separate on ".." and parse that way. Thoughts?
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