Question

I have some JS code which generates the following object,

return {     'type': 'some thing',     'width': 2,     'colour': '#AA12BB',     'values': [2,3,4] } 

The creation of this isn’t a problem.

In writing the test for the method that returns this am having a problem accessing the width/type attributes: the following assertions fail (it leads to a execution/syntax error, which go away when i comment them).

assertEquals('some thing', jsonObj.type); assertEquals(2, jsonObj.width); 

while

assertEquals('#AA12BB', jsonObj.colour); 

passes

Since I cannot change the key names for what I am doing, is there any way to access these values?

Answer 1

Try this:

assertEquals('some thing', jsonObj['type']); assertEquals(2, jsonObj['width']);