I wanted to flatten my deep object to one level depth. None of the above solutions worked for me.
My input:
{
"user": {
"key_value_map": {
"CreatedDate": "123424",
"Department": {
"Name": "XYZ"
}
}
}
}
Expected output:
{
"user.key_value_map.CreatedDate": "123424",
"user.key_value_map.Department.Name": "XYZ"
}
Code that worked for me:
function flattenObject(ob) {
var toReturn = {};
for (var i in ob) {
if (!ob.hasOwnProperty(i)) continue;
if ((typeof ob[i]) == 'object' && ob[i] !== null) {
var flatObject = flattenObject(ob[i]);
for (var x in flatObject) {
if (!flatObject.hasOwnProperty(x)) continue;
toReturn[i + '.' + x] = flatObject[x];
}
} else {
toReturn[i] = ob[i];
}
}
return toReturn;
}