Question

I am almost there with this but cannot seem to get this functionality going as planned.

I have two arrays: keyArray and ValArray;

What I am trying to do is to have a function pass two arguments (keyArr,valArr). Within this function, a parent object is declared and a (for-loop) loops through the passed argument’s length (in this case “keyArr”) creates new objects according the length of the passed argument. And then, the newly created objects are assigned the keys and values.

The issue is that I am able to create the parent object”mObj”, and children Objects to “mObj”, but am only able to assgin keys and values to the first child object “obj0” not rest of the children objects correctly. At the end of the code, this is what I would like to get:

enter code heremObj.obj0.firstname = John;
mObj.obj0.lastname = superfly;
mObj.obj0.email = "[e-mail]";

mObj.obj1.firstname = John;
mObj.obj1.lastname = superfly;
mObj.obj1.email = "[e-mail]";

mObj.obj2.firstname = John;
mObj.obj2.lastname = superfly;
mObj.obj2.email = "[e-mail]";

This is my code:

 var keyArr = ["firstname","lastname","email"];
 var valArr = ["John","Superfly","[e-mail]"];

 function test(keys,vals)  // FUNCTION TEST ACCEPTS TWO ARGS
 {
    var mObj = {}; // PARENT OBJECT
    var len = (keys.length); //ARGUMENT KEY'S LENGTH

    for(var i=0; i<len; i++) 
    { 
      mObj["obj" + i] = {};  //CHILDREN OBJECTS ARE CREATED TO PARENT "mObj" OBJECT
      mObj["obj" + i][keys[i]] = vals[i]; //KEYS AND VALUES ARE ASSIGNED HERE
    }

       alert(mObj.obj1.firstname); // CURRENTLY RETURNS "UNDEFINED"
 }

 test(keyArr,valArr);

Any insight into this would highly be appreciated.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Seems like this is what you need. This code will create as many child objects as the length of keyArr and valArr arrays. Although no idea why you would need it.

var keyArr = ["firstname", "lastname", "email"];
var valArr = ["John", "Superfly", "[e-mail]"];

function test(keys, vals) {
    var mObj = {},
        i, j, len = keys.length;

    for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
        mObj["obj" + i] = {};
        for (j = 0; j < len; j++) {
            mObj["obj" + i][keys[j]] = vals[j];
        }
    }

    alert(mObj.obj1.firstname);
}

console.log( test(keyArr, valArr) );​