pathington - parse an object path from a string, or create one from an array of properties

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2 up and 0 down, posted by planttheidea 2525 days ago 7 comments

kornflexx 2524 days ago. link parent 1 point ▲ ▼

Sorry for my offensive comment. But I didn't see good practices usages with your lib. What are the use cases for this ?

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planttheidea 2524 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

No problem, admittedly it is not something that has direct usage in an application or component or anything. It's main purpose is to serve as a helper under-the-hood for other libraries / methods to compose itself on top of.

Lodash has a similar utility (https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.4#toPath) which works to provide an easy way to recursively / iteratively introspect objects deeply. I built pathington because it handles the 95% use-case while remaining tiny, so that I can solve the same problem in other projects with a much smaller footprint.

kornflexx 2524 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

Oohh. Sorry again. At first, I was thinking: "damnit, people are going to do strange things to retrieve data anywhere with this".

Finaly, I found a very nice application: website scraper. Because I pas ashmed or my post, I tested it on my DOM parser (in a project), and it is working very well.

Sorry, I'm a jerk