30-seconds-of-code/snippets/unflattenObject.md

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unflattenObject	object,advanced

Unflatten an object with the paths for keys.

• Use nested Array.prototype.reduce() to convert the flat path to a leaf node.
• Split each key with a dot delimiter (.) using Array.prototype.split('.')and use Array.prototype.reduce() to add or objects against the keys.
• If the current accumulator already contains value against a particular key, return its value as the next accumulator.
• Otherwise, add the appropriate key-value pair to the accumulator object and return value as the accumulator.

const unflattenObject = obj =>{
    return Object.keys(obj).reduce((res , k)=>{
      k.split('.').reduce(function(acc, e, i , keys) {
        return acc[e] || (acc[e] = isNaN(Number(keys[i + 1])) ? (keys.length - 1 === i ? obj[k] : {}) : []);
      }, res)
      return res;
    },{});
}

unflattenObject({ 'a.b.c': 1, d: 1 }); // { a: { b: { c: 1 } }, d: 1 }
unflattenObject({ 'a.b': 1, 'a.c': 2, d: 3 }); // { a: { b: 1, c: 2 }, d: 3 }
unflattenObject({ 'a.b.0': 8, d: 3 }) //{ a: { b: [ 8 ] }, d: 3 }